including a parsed php file

[matbennett]

I've been trying to find a way to include a parsed php file into a document, where the script is run as a seperate process. Is this possible?

I have installed a banner management script (phpadmentor - very good btw) on a site that I look after and it is giving me problems with the existing script.

The problem seems to be that phpadmentor is leaving a database connection open that is overriding the connections that I use on the rest of the page (the ad script is using standard mySQL and mine is using the ADOBD connections provide by Dreamweaver MX using phakt. Don't know if this is an issue).

I think that I could work around this by running the banner script before my database calls, but that would mean changing a LOT of pages. I then thought that if I had the banner in a seperate page and then printed the output of that page this may get around the problem.

I just have found out how to do that yet. I am guessing that this is something to do with ob_start, but can't figure it out.

Any pointer?

[feldon23]

Best bet is to fix the banner ad script. Have you got a URL so we can look at the existing script and/or can you paste some code to see what's going on?

[matbennett]

Thanks for the reply. At the moment I am running the banner in an iframe to get around this problem. Rather ineligant, but it works.

The script itself can be found at http://www2.aspcode.net/showquestion.aspx?questionid=35 . I did in fact try a few other banner managers and had similar problems. I guess that the real answer is for me to recode the banner script to use the connections that are already defined made and add a conditional routine if they have not been.