Must include text....

[Anon]

How do I make a script so that it must have a certian bit of html at the bottom of the script or it wont work? Is this possible with php?

[Anon]

Depends on what you mean....

[Anon]

At the bottom ehe, thats kinda a weird place to have it... Well the only way I can do it is to use some sort of passthrough function to read the file, check for that html at the bottom (if it's not there add it?), and display it.

I don't know if this is much help, might help if I understood more about exactly what you were trying to do.

[Anon]

I'm tryin to make a site to give away/sell php, cgi, and asp scripts that I make and on the free scripts I wanna put a a little notice and link to my site.

[Anon]

Heh, so you want to brand the scripts that people will download off you to use on their own sites...

Thats something you'll probably have to ask the person who downloaded the script to do as a courtesy, don't forget the scripts are all just plain text and are completely editable, so any can just nuke it if they don't want it. Or are you talking about selling the use of the scripts that you keep on your own host?

[Anon]

i dont think that would work very well, if the ppl are going through the file changing stuff to take all credit away from you, they will probobly take out the code to check if the have removed the credits too

[Anon]

Ok. I guess I'll just use Shaun's idea ask them to leave it out of courtesy then.

[Anon]

Well, you can use the php function

require("filename")

which is pretty self explanitory. It is the same as include(), but instead of just displaying a warning if the file doesn't exist, it will give an error and stop running.

It can still be edited, but it may daunt some newbies. Hosting the script yourself is a much better idea. Hope this helps.