is it at all possible to....

Anon

open a php file, run it, and then assign the data to a varible?
I know someone will tell me to use a require or a include, but the way I have my script set up wont allow for that.....

Anon

Why on earth can't you use includes?

wombatee

If you really can't use an include, although that seems very odd, I suppose you could always use the backtick operator to execute a system command. That's always a bad idea for a web-accessible script, and I don't recommend it, but it would work something like this:

$data = php -q /path/to/your/script.php;

Be very careful with that, especially if you're passing it command line parameters. Adjust the path to your php binary and your script as necessary. This method also requires you to have the CGI version of php installed (this is different than the apache module... see the php manual for details on how to install and set up the CGI version if you don't have it).

Cheers!

Omega Wombat
http://www.drinknation.com

Anon

Ive got the apache module installed. So that won't work. Ive been racking my brain to try to come up with something for this. Ill try and explain myself better.

function rettemp($templatetitle) {
$gettemp=mysql_query("SELECT page FROM data WHERE name='".addslashes($templatetitle)."'");
$temp=mysql_fetch_array($gettemp);
return $temp[page];
}

I use this function to get data from the database. I rettemp to get my pages layout too. Now on a few pages I need to require certain come scripts, I didnt have a problem until i got to the php file. I can't simply open them like I did with the other files. Now because my layout is in a database Ive got to eval my content onto the page.

for example
$copyright = rettemp('copyright ');
eval ("\$copyright = \"$copyright \";");
This is why I cannot use an include because when I include the page, the data doesnt go to where I want it to.

I hope that this will allow for more possibilites.

To see the script in action
http://rag.nu/test.php?li=linkstest
where http://rag.nu/c/linksetup.php?show=1 that is on the page is supposed to be the data from that php script.