Re: Can you recommend a good PHP includes tutorial?

And, you can even do this automatically using the auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file settings: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php These can be set in your Apache config file, php.ini or .htaccess, so you can control what files are used down to the lowest subdirectory level. Of course, if you need to include() in the middle of a page, or conditionally include files, these won't work - steve At 5:16 AM -0800 1/14/04, Freedomware wrote:

Wow, that is a lot simpler than I imagined. Thanks for the tip! Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip] I thought this would be the easiest thing to learn, but I'm striking out right and left. I bought a book about PHP, but the includes examples don't work for me at all. I searched several forums and www.php.net, but it's hard to even zero in on a good tutorial. [/snip] http://www.php.net/include There is no tutorial for this because it is painfully simple to use. Create toBeIncluded.php -- <?php $todayDate = date("m-d-Y"); ?> <h1>Today is <?php echo $todayDate; ?></h1> You're all done! Now create myIncluded.php -- <html> <head></head> <body> <h1>Welcome!</h1> <?php inlclude("toBeIncluded.php"); ?> </body> </html> All done! Now just place these files in the same directory in your web server and load myIncluded.php from the browser. You may have to pay close attention to the paths of the files, but it is pretty simple really. HTH!

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