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"The PHP Include tag"

Hiya. You know that PHP Include tag? Well, how does it work? I can do it so that it references a seperate file, but can I give it a name and a URL like 'www.mysite.com/myfile.php?referencedid=data'. Do you know what i mean, or am I just jibba jabbering about?

Excellent, it works! Cheers CJH! Oh boy, that's useful.

You don't even need the .inc on it:


if (!ereg(".inc$", $File)) {
$File .= ".inc";
}

..::STUFF::..

?>

*cough*

:)

... and if you can, let me know if they work ok :o).

thats cool :o)

Alternativly, try this:

using the same $File in the Web Address, but including the whole file you want to include:

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?File=Page1.inc
http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?File=Page2.inc
http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?File=Page3.inc
etc...

and try use this:

if (file_exists("$File")) {
include("$File");
} else {
include("index.inc");
}
?>

It checks the file is there first and includes it, but if it's not there (for whatever reason) the index is shown :o)

If thats any better, and easier to understand, not to mention less to write when adding new pages, then use that :o)

Cheers, that was really useful. Nice one!

Sorry I didn't write the example in my last post, but I was in college, and just wanted to make sure what I wrote was correct. Didn't want you using something that I wrote wrong :o).


Lets just say that your links were set up with the $File as the variable.

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?File=Page1
http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?File=Page2
http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?File=Page3
etc...

and your files which your including are in the same location as the index.php file(ie the htdocs folder)

have this type of code in the index page:

switch($File) {
case "Page1" :
include("Page1.inc");
break;
case "Page2" :
include("Page2.inc");
break;
case "Page3" :
include("Page3.inc");
break;
default:
include("index.inc");
}
?>

The $File is used to checked and if a match is found, the specified include is used, if no match is found, the default is used, which is likely to be your index file anyway.

For this example, i've assumed that your extra files that you want to include are .inc files, as in include files, but you can have any file type you like: .html, .htm, .php etc...


Hope that was clear enough for you to understand, if not, let me know and I'll try again :o)

Yeah, that would be useful. I don't really use PHP that much, but I can see how useful it is.
Cheers

Yeah you can do that I think (if I think you mean what you mean)

You could use what Turbo said, or a little mor complex, but with the IF or SWITCH statments thing.

I'll write an example of a switch later if you want one.

Er...yeah, i think so. Can you set the $file from a link to that page?

Er...

Um...

I think so. Just set the file to reference as $file, call index.php as index.php?file=foo, and put in index.php

Is that it?