Include (again!) and Return

Anon

Hi all, sorry to be asking about Include() again, but I looked through the archives and couldn't find the answer that I was looking for 🙂

I've got a main file (index.php) that includes what you could call 'content' files. Each content file starts off with assigning a load of values to different variables. Later on it has some HTML that I'd like to output into the main file.

What I'd like to be able to to is include the content file at the top of index.php, and only include as far as all the variable assignments. Further down index.php I'd like to include the rest of the file (the bit with all the HTML in).

If I include("contentfile"), return from it, and include("contentfile") again, will it resume at the point from whence it returned? I've tried it out but in one situation it worked as I expected, and in another it didn't, which got me rather confused!

Thanks in advance guys an' gals,

Deej.

mithril

Nope, the include functions (include, include_once, require, require_once) read the specified file from start to end and execute any operations at whatever point in your script they are called from.

The only way to do what you're thinking of is to either break the files up into separate files for variable declarations and HTML output or to write everything in classes/functions which you then call at the point where you want to display the output.

-geoff

matto

there's another way:

on top of index.php, read in the content file using the file or open/fread functions.

split the content file that's now stored in variables, into the part that's to be executed first (say: $first), and the other part that will be executed later ($later).

now, evaluate (= execute) the code in $first using the eval function:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php
eval($first);

later in the script, evaluate $later.

that should do it!