include file info in variable

[Anon]

I am trying to include information from an include file in a variable prior to printing.
<?php

$content = " <lots of html>
<td width=\"100%\">";

include ("http://www.acme.com/file.php");

$content .= "
</td><lots more html>";

?>

Q. How do I get the information from file.php into $content ?

Thanks
George
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[Anon]

One simple way to do it is to make the variable assignment happen in file.php

If file.php looks like this ...

1 some data
2 some more data
3 more and more data

you could do something like this ...

$content="
1 some data
2 some more data
3 more and more data
";

Then when you include the file, the variable works properly. This can become an unwieldy way of doing it, but is handy on simpler includes. If you are writing the include file from another script, you can just have it write the variable stuff along with the data. You may have to escape some characters, depending on the text you are dealing with though. Heredoc might be useful here too.

[Anon]

Thanks for your help David.

Actually I was just wondering what the code would look like (formatting)to include a file of any type into the variable $content

I have tried writing it several ways and get errors.

<?php

$content = " <lots of html>
<td width=\"100%\">";

$content = include ("http://www.acme.com/file.php");

$content .= "
</td><lots more html>";

?>

this gives me errors or does not include the info from file.php into $content

thank you again.
George

[Anon]

Don't assign the file to a variable, just include it like normal.

[Anon]

Thanks again David.

I need to include the info into the variable because the information contained in the variable goes through a template and then gets printed on another page.

could i do something like this?

$content = "<lots of html>";
$content .= $infofromincludefile
$content .= "<more html>";

would this echo $infofromincludefile into $content ??

Thanks again David, you can see im a newbie
George