newbie question

drunk

what i want to do:

over a formula there will be given a value to a file called auswahl.php

auswahl.php:

<?php

if (empty($area)) {$area=geb1;}

if ($area == "geb1") {
include ("modules/kalender1/index.php");
}

if ($area == "geb2") {
include ("modules/kalender2/index.php");
}

-> after the formula handles the value geb1 or geb2 to the auswahl.php file, the index file of the folder kalender1 or kalender2 should be executed.

is there another command for execution than include ?
i rather want to execute it and not include...

i am getting the following error message:

Warning: Failed opening 'modules/kalender2/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\apache\php\pear') in c:\apache\htdocs\modules\kalender\auswahl.php on line 6

thanks for hopefully simple help and sorry for the bad english.

Weedpacket

Well, there's nothing to do with "execute it instead of include it", because when a file is included, it is executed (it wouldn't be very useful, otherwise).

Juding from the error message, it sounds like PHP can't find the kalendar files.

Seeing as you appear to be on a Windows machine, shouldn't you be using "\" in your file path instead of "/"?

Actually, because "\" has a special meaning in strings, that should be "\":

include("modules\kalendar1\index.php");

As the error message implies, it will look for [directory where this script is]\modules\kalendar1\index.php first. If it doesn't find it, it will next look for c:\apache\php\pear\modules\kalendar1\index.php.

If it still complains, make sure the file's permissions allow it to be read by the server (generally, this means that everyone should be able to read it.)

the_Igel

Originally posted by Weedpacket
As the error message implies, it will look for [directory where this script is]\modules\kalendar1\index.php first. If it doesn't find it, it will next look for c:\apache\php\pear\modules\kalendar1\index.php.

Nope. Or maybe not all versions.
I had this problem a while ago. Sometimes PHP doesn't look in current dir, if it has include_path specified. Easiest solution is to specify the path:
include './modules/Kalendar1.php';

intenz

the_Igel is right, you have to specify the path.

. = current dir
.. = previous dir

Try this...

if(!isset($area)) $area = 'geb1';
switch($area)
{
     case 'geb1':
     $include = './modules/kalender1/index.php';
     break;
     case 'geb2':
     $include = './modules/kalender2/index.php';
     break;
}
include($include);