Passing variables along to included files..?

[uNF]

Hi everybody 🙂

I've got a script, that I have written to work with a login system.. basically it just authenticates the user, or registers them depending on a variable passed in the url.. the string to login is:

auth.php?action=login

and the string to register is:

auth.php?action=register

Now.. I want to include this into my website, but I am trying to keep a kind of 'template' design happening.. So I thought, Why not just include them? The problem is, I can't seem to pass the 'action=' variable along to auth.php from an include();..

I've tried:

include('auth.php?action=login');

and

$action = 'login';
include('auth.php');

But neither seem to work..

Does anybody have any advice or even a guess?

Thanks heaps 🙂

[volleytotal_ch]

including a file is (almost) the same as writing the code directly in the file. So if you have declared a variable in the main file and include another file, the included file should be able to access the defined varible.

Example:

// main file:
<?
  $variable = "hi";
  include("include_file.php");
?>

// Include file:
<?
  echo $variable;
?>

the output of this exanple would be 'hi'.

Attention: if you include a file, you have to give the relational path depending on the main file (the one which is called by the url)

As far as i know, the following code doesn't work!

include('auth.php?action=login');

but i never learn out ...
hth