Functions from another file

[wylim]

I need to include a news_page_generator.php file into a bit of code and call on the function inside of it called new_generator(); How in the world do I go about this. If I could even just include the file so that it would run the code instead of displaying it in the page that would be great.

[driverdave]

include_once "news_page_generator.php";
new_generator($args);

You might want to check out require, since the script will fail if the file containing the function is not included.

[wylim]

Nope doesn't work. Sorry that type of stuff wont work you have to read it into a file and then somehow print that into the PHP code area and then use the function. I'm sorry but I still have no idea what the heck to do.😕

[driverdave]

I think you need to be more specific. What do you mean "won't work"?

But, if you need to read the PHP into the file, and then parse the PHP (then somehow print that into the PHP code area?), do this.

Read the file into a string, then eval the string. You may have to strip off the <?php and ?> tags.

I think you need to use fread to read the file into a string. I kinda forget.

[suntra]

In "news_page_generator.php", is the code between <? and ?> ??? If not, it's normal that PHP shows the code... !