weird stuff with include statement

[mdawg414]

Hey guys, please bear with me cause I am a major newbie at php. I am
building a website and have it so that the content in the middle of the
page changes but the banner on top and the panels on the sides do not.
The way I am doing this is by having a top.php file and a bottom.php
file and in my file index.php it would look like this:
<?php
include("top.ph p");
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("bottom .php");
?>

and that works great. However, I thought it would be cool to have it so
that one of the panels changed for each website so that it was specific
to the page you were on but the others stayed the same. So I thought I
could do include("top.ph p?panel=homepag e"); and edit the top.php page
accordingly. However, this does not work. Thanks so much for your help.

Matt

[Andy Hassall]

On 1 Jul 2005 14:36:02 -0700, md******@gmail. com wrote:

Hey guys, please bear with me cause I am a major newbie at php. I am
building a website and have it so that the content in the middle of the
page changes but the banner on top and the panels on the sides do not.
The way I am doing this is by having a top.php file and a bottom.php
file and in my file index.php it would look like this:
<?php
include("top.p hp");
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("botto m.php");
?>

and that works great. However, I thought it would be cool to have it so
that one of the panels changed for each website so that it was specific
to the page you were on but the others stayed the same. So I thought I
could do include("top.ph p?panel=homepag e"); and edit the top.php page
accordingly. However, this does not work. Thanks so much for your help.

?panel=homepage is for HTTP requests.

This include() is not doing an HTTP request, it is reading from the
filesystem.

There's no such file named "top.php?panel= homepage". So it won't work.

Since this is PHP reading PHP, you simply set the appropriate variable in your
outer file, and the file in the inner scope have it available as described in
the manual.

http://uk2.php.net/include/

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[Thomas Kaarud]

* Andy Hassall wrote:

On 1 Jul 2005 14:36:02 -0700, md******@gmail. com wrote:

Hey guys, please bear with me cause I am a major newbie at php. I am
building a website and have it so that the content in the middle of the
page changes but the banner on top and the panels on the sides do not.
The way I am doing this is by having a top.php file and a bottom.php
file and in my file index.php it would look like this:
<?php
include("top.ph p");
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("bottom .php");
?>

and that works great. However, I thought it would be cool to have it so
that one of the panels changed for each website so that it was specific
to the page you were on but the others stayed the same. So I thought I
could do include("top.ph p?panel=homepag e"); and edit the top.php page
accordingly. However, this does not work. Thanks so much for your help.

?panel=homepage is for HTTP requests.

This include() is not doing an HTTP request, it is reading from the
filesystem.

Correct!

But what he really want to know is how to make it work in real life, not
only the technical reason it doesn't.

Matt, what you will have to do is to have some function to call for in the
top.php and bottom.php if you want to have some kind of dynamic content.

What you could do is something like this:

<?php
//this is top.php
function write_1()
{
echo 'This is 1';
}
?>

<?php
//this is bottom.php
function write_2()
{
echo 'This is 2';
}
?>
<?php
//This is mainfile, e.g. index.php
include("top.ph p");
write_1();
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("bottom .php");
write_2();
?>
--

Thomas

[Jerry Stuckle]

Thomas Kaarud wrote:

* Andy Hassall wrote:

On 1 Jul 2005 14:36:02 -0700, md******@gmail. com wrote:

Hey guys, please bear with me cause I am a major newbie at php. I am
building a website and have it so that the content in the middle of the
page changes but the banner on top and the panels on the sides do not.
The way I am doing this is by having a top.php file and a bottom.php
file and in my file index.php it would look like this:
<?php
include("top.ph p");
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("bottom .php");
?>

and that works great. However, I thought it would be cool to have it so
that one of the panels changed for each website so that it was specific
to the page you were on but the others stayed the same. So I thought I
could do include("top.ph p?panel=homepag e"); and edit the top.php page
accordingly. However, this does not work. Thanks so much for your help.

?panel=homepage is for HTTP requests.

This include() is not doing an HTTP request, it is reading from the
filesystem.

Correct!

But what he really want to know is how to make it work in real life,
not only the technical reason it doesn't.

Matt, what you will have to do is to have some function to call for in
the top.php and bottom.php if you want to have some kind of dynamic
content.

What you could do is something like this:

<?php
//this is top.php
function write_1()
{
echo 'This is 1';
}
?>

<?php
//this is bottom.php
function write_2()
{
echo 'This is 2';
}
?>
<?php
//This is mainfile, e.g. index.php
include("top.ph p");
write_1();
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("bottom .php");
write_2();
?>

Why go to all that trouble?

Just put

<?php
echo "This is 1";
?>

in top.php and include it where you want it (instead of calling a function).

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[Thomas Kaarud]

* Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Thomas Kaarud wrote:

<?php
//this is top.php
function write_1()
{
echo 'This is 1';
}
?>
<?php
//this is bottom.php
function write_2()
{
echo 'This is 2';
}
?>
<?php
//This is mainfile, e.g. index.php
include("top.ph p");
write_1();
?>
Here is my index stuff...
<?php
include("bottom .php");
write_2();
?>

Why go to all that trouble?

Just put

<?php
echo "This is 1";
?>

in top.php and include it where you want it (instead of calling a
function).

Ofcourse, but it seems like this being a person who want to know how to
use included files, and obviously you don't have a singe included file for
any kind of include you would like....

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Thomas

[mdawg414]

Thanks for your help guys. Worked perfectly.