more info on include problem

Anon

Hi again, I think I have narrowed the problem down to this:

when this format is used..

<?php
include ("root.php");
$page_header = "Our Company Products";
include ("headertest.php");

?>
variables in both root.php and the $page title are passed.

However, when I include the IP address as follows, nothing gets passed:
<?php
include ("root.php");
$page_header = "Our Company Products include ("http://XXX.203.251.145/headertest.php");

any ideas why that would be? I would really appreciate any help you can provide!

Anon

You seem to be missing the last quotation and semicolon and line return on your second example. Is it that?

Should read :

<?php
include ("root.php");
$page_header = "Our Company Products";
include ("http://XXX.203.251.145/headertest.php");
?>

Anon

I copied it wrong
it really does say..
<?php
include ("root.php");
$page_header = "Our CompanyProducts";

	include ("headertest.php");

?>
thank you, though

reagent

I'm going to take a guess and say that when you just give the filename php knows that this file is on the server, and the PHP parser interprets the php code. When you provide the ip address/hostname, PHP believes it to be on a remote server (even though the ip address may be the same) and just does an HTTP GET on it and returns the output without trying to interpret it.

Anon

Thank you!
Believe it or not, I finally checked this out(I had used a workaround) and you were absolutely right. When I removed the IP address reference, it worked perfectly.
Just thought you'd like to know!
Patty