Re: Defining PHP varibles from URL

The way you're doing it now, you're first ERASING whatever value passed from the URL, with $file=""; and then trying to use it... If this ' $file="" ' is some declaration attempt, just drop it, you don't need to declare variables in PHP. Just check if $file has a value and then use it. For example, if ($file != "") include($file); Hope it helps. -- Pedro Alberto Pontes <webmaster@tececo.com> wrote in message news:009501c1f4e0$636d3e80$0100a8c0@JohnH... I don't mean to be a pain but could someone send me a working example? I am what you would probably call a 'newbie' For those who don't know here is my previous message can't seem to define a varible from the url entered into a browser. I wish to use the following code or something like it. <script language="php"> $file = ""; //the above is defined from the url include "$file"; </script> It could be what I was typing in the url bar. file.php?file=foobar.inc Thanks, JJ Harrison webmaster@tececo.com www.tececo.com