[thelist] A tip with PHP

[s t e f]

Damien Cola wrote:

>> Although I've got a question :
>> 
>> 
>>> $page = join ('', file ($fichier));
>>> 
>>> echo $page;
>> 
>> Why not use something like :
>> include($fichier);
>> 
>> What do you think, people?
> 
> 
> I think that:
> "The include() statement includes and evaluates the specified file."
> 
> That is not what I want to do, I want the content of a file to be placed in
> my variable $page. Then, only after, display it. (you could perform some
> "search and replace" before echoing the page)
> 
> If you do include, obviously you gonna get errors, since the included file
> must be specialy tailored for your purpose, that is beginning by ?> and
> eventually finishing by <?php in order for the html to be displayed
> correctly..

I'm really not sure about this one.

Here's some code I just tested and it works quite well:

<?php

echo "<h1>this is before the include</h1>";

include("test.html");

echo "<h1>this is after the include</h1>";

?>

In test.html there's some plain <p>...</p> HTML, and everything works 
fine. I guess that's what they mean by "code is evaluated and then 
inserted"...
Never underestimate the power of PHP ;-)

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