PHP Forum

**johniman7** · 03-25-2009, 09:52 PM

Ok, this may be hard to explain...

Lets just set up these basic example files...

leftside.php has... "CONTENT HERE"

and I have my php program that creates a file, loads a template file, adds evaluates a few basic variables, and then saves the completed file.

I have <?php include("leftside.php"); ?> in my template file. When the code runs it includes the file and then writes the file.

So I have...

Code:

<html>
<body>
B
</body>
</html>

But I need the actuall PHP include to transfer through to the file so it should be...

Code:

<html>
<body>
<?php include("leftside.php"); ?>
</body>
</html>

Sorry if my explanation was long and confusing, I wasn't really sure how to explain it. Thanks, John

**NullPointer** · 03-25-2009, 11:16 PM

I'm not sure that I'm understanding.
Can't you just write the string '<?php include("leftside.php"); ?>' to the file?

**lizciz** · 03-26-2009, 12:53 AM

I would suggest using a function to read the file, instead of including it. Try get_file_contents() for example.

PHP Code:


			
$leftside = file_get_contents('leftside.php');
$new_page = "
<html>
   <head><title>My new site</title></head>
   <body>
      Something goes here...
      $leftside
      Something else here...
   </body>
</html>
";