I know that. Footertext prints out the footer for my site. The bottom
of my layout. Also, as I said, I even tried printing $footertext.
Thanks for trying to help, though.
Miguel Cruz wrote:
>I don't know what $footertext looks like, but I can tell you that just
>eval()ing a chunk of text won't have any apparent effect.
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>When you eval() code in a string, that code has to either return()
>something, or have direct effects on its own (such as calling functions or
>setting values). eval() != echo.
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>miguel
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>On Mon, 20 May 2002, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
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>> On my website, I open my header (and footer) file with fileopen and
>>then eval() it. I know I should include them, but I knew nothing about
>>php when I did this. Anyway, I'm working on "groups" for my website.
>> They will be a kind of club. At the top of every group page, I include
>>a group function file. Among those functions is one that checks if the
>>user trying to go to the group is a member of it. If not, it gives them
>>an error message and exits. It is also supposed to eval() the footer
>>before exiting. My code is as follows:
>>
>> function checkmember(){
>> global $groupid;
>> global $userinfo;
>> global $footertext;
>> if($groupid != $userinfo['groupid']){
>> print "<b>Error:</b> you're not a member of this group.";
>> eval($footertext);
>> exit;
>> }
>> return;
>> }
>>
>>
>>The thing is, it doesn't seem to eval() the footer. I've even tried
>>getting $footertext out of the $GLOBALS array. I have also tried
>>printing $footertext to make sure it wasn't a problem with evel().
>> Nothing has worked. When I did isset() on $GLOBALS['footertext'], it
>>worked however. Thanks to anybody who can help.
>>
>>
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