Re: [PHP] ?include?... another dumb question
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 20:58, Team GotFusion wrote: I have people telling me that I MUST put the ?include? file before or inside the header of the .php file I am writing before a script is pulled into my file. I usually just put the ?include? whereever I need it on the page. Actually have it embedded in an IF statement, so that if the conditions are not met, the script is not run and there is no need to pull in the script. It works fine Is placing the include at the top absolutely required, good programming convention or just preferred? Simply put, you can place them wherever you want. Obviously if your include file defines certain variables then common sense dictates that you include it before you refer to those variables. All this and more is covered in the manual. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.com.hk /* It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] ?include?... another dumb question
Yes, this is acceptable. Normally, include and require go at the top of the page out of convention. However, there is no requirement that they be there. Just be careful. it's an accepted convention because it's a good idea. Make sure you know what you are doing when you break with the tradition. =C= * * Cal Evans * Journeyman Programmer * Techno-Mage * http://www.calevans.com * -Original Message- From: Team GotFusion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] ?include?... another dumb question I have people telling me that I MUST put the ?include? file before or inside the header of the .php file I am writing before a script is pulled into my file. I usually just put the ?include? whereever I need it on the page. Actually have it embedded in an IF statement, so that if the conditions are not met, the script is not run and there is no need to pull in the script. It works fine Is placing the include at the top absolutely required, good programming convention or just preferred? thanks, Tami Team GotFusion -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ?include?... another dumb question
Yep, ordered the manuals from Amazon.com... and they inadvertently shipped the books to my mom-in-law ha ha. except that she's retired and computers are still a mystery. So, I am muddling through with my PHP dev. dictionary until I get to see my relatives this weekend. (cheesy smiley) Tami Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; On Tuesday 05 March 2002 20:58, Team GotFusion wrote: I have people telling me that I MUST put the ?include? file before or inside the header of the .php file I am writing before a script is pulled into my file. I usually just put the ?include? whereever I need it on the page. Actually have it embedded in an IF statement, so that if the conditions are not met, the script is not run and there is no need to pull in the script. It works fine Is placing the include at the top absolutely required, good programming convention or just preferred? Simply put, you can place them wherever you want. Obviously if your include file defines certain variables then common sense dictates that you include it before you refer to those variables. All this and more is covered in the manual. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.com.hk /* It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ?include?... another dumb question
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 08:08 AM, Jason Wong wrote: Is placing the include at the top absolutely required, good programming convention or just preferred? Simply put, you can place them wherever you want. Obviously if your include file defines certain variables then common sense dictates that you include it before you refer to those variables. I was using a similar technique for some time, where I just included a file that contained whatever code I needed, in the place where it was appropriate. It ended up getting hard to handle, though, because sometimes I'd want access to an includefile's functions but the includefile contained HTML outside of PHP or perhaps an echo statement or something, and I had a header() function or cookie action somewhere below this (these things are invalid once HTML is first output). I eventually switched to a setup where my includefiles may contain variables or functions that I wish to use, but nothing that could output any HTML, so that I can include them wherever I want without worrying about it. I just call the function or use the variable in the decision logic of my scripts now. It's conceptually cleaner. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
