Help with include() and open IF

Anon

Hi There.

I'm using an Include PHP File at the Top and another at the bottom of my PHP pages to autenthicate users against a DataBase. (If you have other way of doing this, welcome)

I create a session and the User ID and Pass are global Variables.

The code in the resulting page is:

<?
ini_set("session.cache_limiter","");
session_start();
include("security_top.inc.php") ;
?>

My normal HTML or PHP Page

<? include("security_down.inc.php") ?>
</BODY>

The security_top.inc.php include is:
<?
// Search the user in the DB
$sql = "SELECT userid, pass FROM usuario WHERE userid='$id_glo'" ;
$query = mysql_query($sql);
$query_res = mysql_fetch_array($query);
$pw2 = $query_res['pass'];
// checks if the pass matches
if ($pw_glo==$pw2)
{
?>

And the security_down.inc.php one is:

<?
}
else
{
?>
You can not view this page !!
}
?>

The problem is that I get 2 parse errors, in the top one, the line after the "{" and in the bottom one the second line, the one with "}"

Any clues ?

Can I leave IF statements open inside Includes ?

Plase, Help

Thanks

Jose

tappy

<?
}
else
{
?>
You can not view this page !!
}
?>

you have missed out the opening <? thing..

try...

<?
}
else
{
?>
You can not view this page !!
<?
}
?>

Anon

No, I don't think you can do that. Every include()d file should be a complete PHP script by itself.

Diego