Include with a rand() var

Anon

Im making a little banner rotator, that sets $randincno as a random number between 10 and 99, then goes off to a directory and retrives $randincno + .txt. I'm just not to sure how to make that include work properely.

This is the code I have so far:

        <?PHP

        $randincno = rand(10,99);

        include("..\ads\$randincno\.txt")

        ?>

It sets the $randincno properely, but i've got no idea how to include a variable within some directory structure. If anybody could help me i'd be very grateful.

Thanks,

m3rlin

tubedogg

I think your problem probably stems from the placement of the backslashes - from my reading of your code, the $ in $randincno is being escaped, so PHP is looking for a folder under ads that is named
$randincno
instead of the value of $randincno.

So I would do this one of two ways. First is to just use forward slashes, simple enough...

include("../ads/$randincno/.txt");

Also looking at that you appear to have an extra slash there before the . in .txt. Is that supposed to be there?

The second way to do this would be like this:

include("..\ads\" . $randincno . ".txt");

(Again, not sure if you intend to have that final backslash or not.)

Either way should work.

Anon

thanks Kevin!

That fixed it perfectly!!

yay Your a champ.

tubedogg

You're welcome. 🙂

Anon

hmm..it didn't fix it actually, I spoke to soon.

I now get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"' in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\SecureInput\includes\template\leftnav.php on line 146

or this error:

Warning: Failed opening '../ads/14.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\SecureInput\includes\template\leftnav.php on line 146

(The files exist in that directory).

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

m3rlin

tubedogg

Can you post the exact code that you changed it to?

Anon

Either:

        <IMG 
        height=7 src="images/subMenu_affiliate.gif" 
        width=82 border=0><BR><BR>

        <?PHP

        $randincno = rand(10,15);

        include("../ads/$randincno.txt");  

        ?>

        <IMG height=7 
        src="images/subMenu_support.gif" width=82 
        border=0><BR><A class=support 
        href="index.php?page=contact">Contact</A> 
        <BR><A class=support 
        href="index.php?page=faq">FAQ</A> <BR><A 
        class=support 
        href="index.php?page=feedback">Feedback</A> 
        <BR></FONT><BR>

        <!-- Support End --->

        <!-- Affiliates Start --->

        <IMG 
        height=7 src="images/subMenu_affiliate.gif" 
        width=82 border=0><BR><BR>

        <?PHP

        $randincno = rand(10,15);

        include("..\ads\" . $randincno . "\.txt");   

        ?>

tubedogg

I made a mistake on the first bit of code I gave you.

This:
include("..\ads\" . $randincno . ".txt");

should be this:
include("..\ads\" . $randincno . ".txt");

However that doesn't explain why the other way isn't working - I just tested it here and it seems to be fine. shrugs

Anon

I found the problem.

The directory structure was like this.

root
-includes
--templates (the file that the code was in lives here)
--ads

For some reason, i had to specify includes\ads..not sure why.

Either way, it works now..so

Thanks very much 🙂

tubedogg

Glad you got it going. 🙂