Printing a '1'..?

[Anon]

Hi,

Some very wierd is happening with my code.

Here is my auth function:

function authenticate() {
Header("WWW-authenticate: basic realm=\"" . PROGRAM_NAME . " Members' Area Login\"");
Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
echo include("login_fail.inc.php");
exit;
}

When login fails, the include is executed. The thing is when the page is displayed a number one (1) is printed at the bottom. I have no idea why this is happening. Can anyone she some light on why this would be happening?

Cheers!
Pulse8

[Anon]

Try leaving out the 'echo'. I'm pretty sure that this is producing the '1'. It's not necessary anyway - whenever PHP includes a file it automatically drops out of "PHP code" parsing and into "HTML echoing", which is why PHP code in include files still need their <? and ?>.

What looks like is happening is that include() is including login_fail.inc.php, PHP is executing the code within it and all that folderol, and then include() returns a 1 to say that the file was successfully included - which the echo then echoes.

So in short, drop the echo. A quick test would be to call login_fail.inc.php directly and see if the 1 still gets printed. If it doesn't, then the echo is definitely the guilty party. If it does, then the fault has to be in the login_fail.inc.php page!

[Anon]

Spot on!

Thanks alot Hayley, I appreciate it!

Pulse8