Re: Reading part of a file

That's what my alternative was if there wasn't a way to do it in PHP with some special leet attack. :-) Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt" <mschroebel@epooch.com> To: "Stephen" <webmaster@melchior.us> Cc: "PHP List" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Reading part of a file > > From: "Stephen" <webmaster@melchior.us> > > Cc: "PHP List" <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:52 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Reading part of a file > > > > What I'm doing is having a PHP part, let's say that it's a calculator that > > adds module, that does the adding. The second part of the file is the form > > that the user uses to put in the numbers. That's what I want to do... > > If you have a piece of php code sitting in a file, you can use it anytime by > including or requiring it. Say you have a file named add.php and in it you > have: > --- Top of file --- > <?php > function add($addend1, $addend2) { > return ($addend1 + $addend2); > } > ?> > --- End of file --- > > in another file named page calc.php you can do a: > --- Top of file --- > <?php > require 'add.php'; > if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') { > $sum = add($_POST['addend1'],$_POST['addend2']); > echo "<br>The sum of {$_POST['addend1']} and > {$_POST['addend2']} is > $sum<br>\n"; > } > ?> > <form method="post" action="calc.php"> > <input type="text" name="addend1" size="10"><br> > <input type="text" name="addend2" size="10"><br> > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add them"> > </form> > --- End of file --- > > >