Problem including files in PHP
<?php
echo 'trying to include testInc.php...<br>';
include('testInc.php');
echo '<br><br>trying to include testInc.php?some=thing...<br>';
include('testInc.php?some=thing');
?>that code is within the file something.php
testInc.php contains only an echo saying 'done'.
the first include (testInc.php) works fine but the second (testInc.php?some=thing) doesn't work. When I set them to require() the second require produces this error.
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'testInc.php?some=thing' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /var/www/localhost/rules/technology/ships/something.php on line 5
any idea whats up?
Greg K posted this at 08:31 — 31st October 2004.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
What is up is it is not finding a filename "testInc.php?some=thing" Filesystems do not take query strings like URL's do.
To do what it appears you are trying to do, you could do the following:
-- Main File --
<?phpecho \"Going to use a variable named Some that equals Thing<br>\n\";
$Some = \"Thing\";
include('testInc.php');
?>
-- testInc.php --
<?phpecho \"The value of Some is \" . $Some . \"<br>\n\";
?>
When you do an include, it takes the code of the include executes it as if it is part of the same file, so as it processes your script, it sees:
<?phpecho \"Going to use a variable named Some that equals Thing<br>\n\";
$Some = \"Thing\";
echo \"The value of Some is \" . $Some . \"<br>\n\";
?>
For more information, see http://www.php.net/include
-Greg
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 08:41 — 31st October 2004.
He has: 3,348 posts
Joined: Jul 2001
Whatever it is you're doing, it might be a good idea, if you're trying to modularise it, to write it with OOP principles. In testInc, write your processes as a class, and in the main file, just initialise the class and pass whatever values you need.
Khanny posted this at 09:21 — 31st October 2004.
They have: 51 posts
Joined: Dec 2002
cheers guys, looks like it was just some lax configuration on the old server the allowed it to work like that.
Abhishek,
yeh, we've had a redesign of the system along OOP lines on the books for a while now but we're a volunteer project so things like that tend to get shoved to the back. Looks like we're gonna have to implement it now though
cheers for your help guys.
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