Get vars from 2nd file without include

[sparkyz]

I'm trying to read in a handful of variables from a second file without printing the entire file. Is there a way to this without a big exercise in regular expressions. I can get and use them if I "include" or "require" the file; but that forces the whole file into the page.

Thanks

[Anon]

hmm... if you dont want to use include() or require() ... and you still want to read in the variables from external file, then i guess you can have that external file included in to PHP itself by having the include_path in php.ini directed to that file's location.

this will save you the effort of including the file in every script.

And if you dont want to do that.. then i guess you need a magic wand.. 🙂