Anyway to include files in php?

Anon

My question is quite simple, yet I can't seem to find the answer. Is there anyway to include files in php? By that I mean something like asp with the #include statement. I want to have a sidebar on my site but do not want frames. Can I just make the sidebar page and have the other pages "include" that file somehow?

Anon

Yes: include.

Anon

<?php include("http://www.yoursite.com/header.php"); ?>

Kirk Parker wrote:

Yes: include.

Anon

You should have read the fucking manual ..

There are 4 functions that do that in PHP:

include
require
include_once
require_once

And you can also use a 5th function called

readfile
wich reads a file and outputs it.

<?= readfile ( "your.php" ); ?>

<? include ( "your.php" ); ?><? require ( "your.php" ); ?>

Etc..

Anon

Actually, don't do it this way unless you want it pre-parsed by php, and to only include the resulting HTML. Instead, include the file by directly referencing it from the local file system.