EASY QUESTION

[fuzz01]

Guys and Gals,

I have an easy question.
I have looked at the PHP Manual and get totally confussed with what the hell its going on about, my question is simple :

If a condition is met through an IF statement
and I want load a file, how would I go about doing this. I have looked at the required and include notes but I do not need to return any values, is there another way of going about this ?

Also what is the main difference between include and required ??

Many Thanks

Fuzz01

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If you just want to load a file to be displayed, include is still the easiest way.
You could also use the filesystem functions to open the file and print the content, but that's a bit more complex.

The main diff between include and require is that
include() only loads the file when the include() function is executed:
so this will never load the file:
if (0)
{
include("bla.php");
};

and require will allways load the file, even if the "require()" never gets executed:
so this will load the file:
if (0)
{
require("bla.php");
};

[fuzz01]

Many Thanks For The Speedy Responce.

Fuzz01

vincent wrote:

If you just want to load a file to be displayed, include is still the easiest way.
You could also use the filesystem functions to open the file and print the content, but that's a bit more complex.

The main diff between include and require is that
include() only loads the file when the include() function is executed:
so this will never load the file:
if (0)
{
include("bla.php");
};

and require will allways load the file, even if the "require()" never gets executed:
so this will load the file:
if (0)
{
require("bla.php");
};