php inside a php file

[Anon]

Hello,
Will anyone help me with this please!

Let's just say I have in a PHP file

include("file.txt");

and inside the file.txt, I have some more php code with html... for some reason, the PHP code inside this file isn't parsed... anyone know how I can get around this?

Thanks!
James

[toma42]

are there <?'s around the php?

[Anon]

i'm using fopen($filename)

i did put <?php ?> ...

fopen() parses the code in filename ok, but it wont parse the code in the actual php file, if i look in the HTML source i can actually see the PHP code, so it's just ignored it...

Thanks again,
James

[Anon]

If you want the contents of the PHP file parsed, you need to use include() or require(); otherwise it's treated as just another file.

[Anon]

I had a similar problem once, I'm not sure but I think I fixed it by just renaming the file from file.txt to file.php. And of course all the php code has to be enclosed in <?php ... ?>

Hope this helps.

[Anon]

ok thanks!