How can I include a file betweeen <td> tag?

[sam johnson]

How do i achieve the echo "include part in the code? I am getting an error.

<?php 
mysqli_select_db($connect, "developers"); 
 
$result = mysqli_query($connect, "SELECT * FROM finddev");
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Serial</th>
<th>Application</th>
<th>Developer</th>
<th>Platform</th>
<th>Website</th>
<th>Reviews</th>
</tr>";
 
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "<tr>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Serial'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Application'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Developer'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Platform'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Website'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . include 'review.php' . "</td>"; -- This part
  echo "</tr>";
  }
 
 
echo "</table>";
 
 
?>
 

[Cmaza]

I haven't double-checked or tested this, but off the top of my head, I think the problem is the context in which you're calling include. Might not be it, but, I don't think it looks right - Include parses and executes rather than parsing and returning. Anyhow.

Where you've got:

echo "<td>" . include 're.php' . "</td>";

Instead, try this:

echo "<td>"; include "re.php"; echo "</td>";

(And whatever you're wanting to be returned from 're.php', just add another echo in the actual file where said returning data is - it'll execute within the correct scope).

If it works, problem solved; If not, just reply again to let us know. ^.^

[Atli]

Hey.

That depends on what is in the file you are trying to include. If it is just a normal PHP file, without a global return statement, you would have to include it in a separate statement.

echo "<td>";
include 'review.php';
echo "</td>";
 

The include command essentially imports the contents of the file you point to into the current file. An easy way to think about it is that it copy/pastes the code from the file over the include command.

So if the 'review.php' file contained something like this:

<?php
$m = 42;
$c = 3.14159;
$e = $m * pow($c, 2);
echo "From review.php: $e";
?>

The effective outcome, after the include, would be:

echo "<td>";
$m = 42;
$c = 3.14159;
$e = $m * pow($c, 2);
echo "From review.php: $e";
echo "</td>";
 

There are other uses of the include command, when coupled with global return statements, so look out for that.