Re: Using a variable for include statement

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:00 -0300, Jeff Benetti wrote: > Sorry if this is a noob question, I have used PERL, TCL and VB but I am just > getting into PHP. If there is a better place to ask noobie questions then > let me know. > > I want to use the include statement but I want to pass the name of the file > rather than hard code it. It seems that PHP needs the file to be in its > defined PATH in order to do this (or am I wrong?). > > My code works OK if I use hard coding > > Example (works) > > include ('somefile.php') > > Example (doesn't work) > > $TheFile = "somefile.php" > > include ($TheFile) > > Am I trying to do something that is impossible? > > If it is a path problem then how do I get around this, I can control my > local server config but I only have a local server for development. If the first works, then the second will work unless you've trimmed out some useful information for us to see... or maybe it's the lack of a semi-colon after the assignment (but that's probably just a quick typo mistake). Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................