On Tuesday 13 November 2001 23:16, TorrentUK wrote: > According to the php manual it can pass args and values.
I think this is only true *if* you're including a remote file, ie through HTTP. > The value I pass in through the $id then determines what poll is > presented to the visitor (poll.php opens a file called $id.txt, which > contains the poll's title, values, etc). So I set the id variable > depending on where the poll script is invoked (i.e. what will the > visitor be voting for at this point). > > I'm confused. I going to have to think of a work-around (sometimes > known as a kludge :) ) > > > I mentioned, it calls the poll.php > > > if I drop the argument part (?id=KnChooseBoots). It's all very > > > strange. That's because the'argument' part (which you can't use when including local files) contains a question mark '?' which confuses Windows filesystem as it stands for a single wildcard character. hth -- Jason Wong Gremlins Associates www.gremlins.com.hk -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]