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echo inside a include

im trying to echo some info into a include statement, this is what i got:

PHP:

<?php

$url_path = "http://someurl.com/";

if ($page == "home") {
    include('about.htm');  
    }

?>

i want to echoe the url_path into the include, ie

PHP:

<?php

$url_path = "http://someurl.com/";

if ($page == "home") {
    include('[b]<echo right here>[/b]about.htm');  
    }

?>

Code:

$url_path = "http://someurl.com/";

if ($page == "home") {
include($url_path +'about.htm');
}

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PHP:

<?php
$url_path = "http://someurl.com/";
if ($page == "home") {
    include('$url_pathabout.htm');  
}
?>

or take away the trailing slash..

PHP:

<?php
$url_path = "http://someurl.com";
if ($page == "home") {
    include('$url_path/about.htm');  
}
?>

Is there some kind of problem with doing this that I don't see?

but if home is the index page, you may want to put
if (($page == "home") or ($page =="")) { code }

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Last edited by MinDFreeZ, November 4th, 2004 02:30 PM (Edited 1 times)

not sure, i will try

thanks for the help

PHP:

<?php

$url_path = "http://someurl.com";
if ($page == "home") {
    include($url_path.'/about.htm');  
}

?>

that should work

Skip all that and use exactly what D A wrote. Learn from it to so you know for the future how to do it.

Look at the dot in between $url_path and '/about.htm'. The dot connects $url_path to '/about.htm' when it is parsed. There isn't much more to it, re-read what i just said a few times if it doesn't.

I put

Quote:

Is there some kind of problem with doing this that I don't see?

because I wanted the answer D A and Nem just said.. that's useful info right there..
altho i tested it, and my way works.. his way does the same thing, and is more efficient/correct.

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using this code, is there a way to change the action from getting the attribute from inside the code instead of the url

Code:

$banner = $_GET["banner"];
//this gets the query string from the url!

if ($banner == "tall") {
include($url_path.'assets/inc/banner-tall.php');
}

else if($banner == "short") {
include($url_path.'assets/inc/banner-short.php');
}

if i put this at the top of the file, is there an easy way to change that code?

Code:

$banner = "tall";