Dynamic includes

[Anon]

Hi,

I am developing a site based on a basic "menu" system with several modules attached to it. On the start page of the site I want to display information from each of the modules. At the moment I have coded functions for each module in the startpage script itself, but I want to do it dynamicly. I want to be able to read a include file, placed in the module subdirectory and run a standard function for each of module.

Each module should then contain a include file as following

startpage.inc

<?
function showdata()
{
//display information
}
?>

Can I read several include files with the same name, each containing a function with the same name and call each function seperately?

Or am I just looking in the wrong direction?

Thanks in advance,

Eddie

P.S. I'm looking for a sollution that doesn't need a database.

[Anon]

I'm not quite sure about what you want to do, but here's what I know:

You can include several files with the same name, provided they are in different locations (obviously)

Once you include a file, it's code becomes part of the code of the script that the include() is in.
You can therefore not use functions with the same name.

but, if you only want to print some information at the point where you include the module, you could just add some code to the module that is not in a function.:

includeme.php
<?
echo "This is module includeme.php";

function bar()
{
}
function foo()
{
}
?>