Example:

PHP Code:

<?
include('search.php?q=<?echo "EXAMPLE" ?>;');
?>

The internal <? ?> don't will work (<?echo "EXAMPLE" ?>), how can I solve it?

You are already in php with the opening <? statement. (Which I like to write <?php)

You may be missing the theory of includes. You are not sending this to be displayed in the URL, you are requesting a file within your server. Like example.php would be a file you include into a page.

I think you might be trying to do something like this:

PHP Code:

<?php

$example = 'example.txt';
include('includes/'.$example);

?>

1. Since you are already in PHP mode you don't need to echo anything. I think what you are trying to accomplish is concatenating strings:

PHP Code:

$foo = "example";
include('search.php?q=' . $foo); 


2. Your approach appears to be incorrect (the code I posted above will fail). What exactly are you trying to do?

3. Using short tags (<? and <?=) is a bad idea. They will be removed in later versions of PHP and some people using older versions do not have them enabled (in other words using them leads to non-portable code). Use <?php instead.

To clarify, trying to pass URL paramters through an include will result in a 404.

Originally Posted by adam89

To clarify, trying to pass URL paramters through an include will result in a 404.

Not quite.

If url file access is enabled and you use include or require with a url (ex include('http://mysite.com/somefile.php?foo=bar') ) then you will get whatever content that site servers to you (which could possibly be a 404 page).

If file url file access is disabled then include will look for a literal match to whatever input you gave it in the file system, almost certainly resulting in a warning (or an error if you use require).

Not sure I understand you here. What do you mean by 'URL file access enabled'?

When I said passing parameters through an include would result in a 404, I just generally meant that file will not be found (not a strict 404 server error). I was talking about PHP's "failed to open stream" warning/error. You cannot pass URL parameters through an include.