include() in if...else statement?

[galadrix]

When a user logs in my website, it references a character file. In that character file, there is a variable defined, $guild; which if true, has to include a file with guild information.

So, in the profile page where a user views his/her own information, I need to include the guild file, but since there are more than one guild, I have to include a certain guild file.

I have this so far.

<?php include('../character_library/'. $_SESSION['name'] .'.inc'); ?>
  <?php
 
    if ($guild == false) {
 
    } else {
 
    include('../character_library/guild_library/'$guild'.inc');
    }
?>
 

The first part includes the character file, which is in a session when they log in, and the second part needs to include a guild file if they belong to one.

So, in this case, the character does belong to a guild, let's say, the alpha guild.

In the character file it says

$guild = "alpha";
 

And I have a file on my server called alpha.inc.

When I insert the statement, and later on in the page I try to access $guildmaster which is in the alpha.inc file, it just hangs, and does NOTHING.

Thanks for any help you can give me, I'm a bit of a begginner. :-D

-galadrix

[Banfa]

[php]
include('../character_library/guild_library/'$guild'.inc');
[/php]

I think that you have a small error in this line, I think you need to use the concatinate string operator . , or at least I would so that it looks like

[php]
include('../character_library/guild_library/' . $guild . '.inc');
[/php]

Additionally if the page requires the page I suggest that instead of include you use require. The are 4 functions that includes other files into the current script

include
include_once
require
require_once

The differences are the require functions will produce an error and abort the script if they fail (making it rather obvious). The _once functions (as opposed to the other ones) only include the given file if it has not already been included (useful for files that start sessions and such like).