[thelist] A tip with PHP

[Patti Ames]

--- Seb <seb at members.evolt.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > $page = join ('', file ($fichier));
> > > > echo $page;
> 
> You're actually wasting resources by indirectly assigning the
> contents of a
> file into another variable. 
> 
> eg:
> 
> <? $fichier = $whatever;
> include($fichier); ?>
> 
> When you include a file, it only evaluates what's inside PHP
> delimiter tags,
> so if you leave them out it treats your included file as HTML to be
> output.
> 

Since you're using HTML files, why not use readfile? What
advantage does include have over readfile? It seems like
include would have more overhead.



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