Re: require_once adds a "1"

Thank you for your replies they are appreciated, I've tried a few things in response to your answers but all I can get is either "1" by it self or no include. Ernest is correct in assuming there is code in the included file it is as follows perhaps you can see my mistake? Gary -----------------------[snip----------------------- <?php function getTopPlugins() { $sPage = ""; $sContent = " Not available."; // download the page $fh = fopen("http://www.anyurl.html"); if($fh) { while( NULL != ($sLine = fgets($fh, 4096))) { $sPage .= $sLine; } fclose($fh); // get the content $sPage = ereg_replace("\n", " ", $sPage); if(ereg("\<\!\-\- \{XSCL\:BODY\:BGN\} \-\-\>(.*)\<\!\-\- \{XSCL\:BODY\:END\} \-\-\>", $sPage, $substrs)) { $sContent = $substrs[1]; } } return $sContent; } echo getTopPlugins(); ?> --------------[snip]----------------------