[PHP] Re: include-ing results in variable?

[CC Zona]

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathaniel Merriam) wrote:

 I have this at the top of the page:
 
 ?php
 $banner = include (banner.inc);
 ?
 (which immediately spits out the result of the include!)
 
 But I want to print the results several times a page with this:
 ?=$banner?

What's in banner.inc?  Because, as noted in the manual, an included file 
can have a return value *if you give it one*.  If you have code there 
that's echoing/printing, that will indeed spit out immediately.  The trick 
is to instead capture that output into a variable and return it.

//simpleinclude.inc
?php
$ret=somefunct(foo);
$ret.=anotherfunct(bar);
return $ret;
?

//otherpage.php
?php
$banner=include(simpleinclude.inc);
...
echo $banner;
?

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[PHP] Re: include-ing results in variable?

[Nathaniel Merriam]

Thanks for your help, I've got it working now (I think!). You're right, I
had an echo at the bottom of the included script and I think was loathe to
mess with it since I spent about 12 hours getting that one to work!

I had read the man page for include -- even the example with the return! --
about a hundred times today, but it just didn't make sense in my head even
though I suspected it was related to my problem. This is my first foray into
any kind of programming since I played with Turbo Pascal about 10 years ago,
so I'm fumbling around a bit :)

thanks again,
nathaniel


 What's in banner.inc?  Because, as noted in the manual, an included file
 can have a return value *if you give it one*.  If you have code there
 that's echoing/printing, that will indeed spit out immediately.  The trick
 is to instead capture that output into a variable and return it.





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