php inside include

warnerb

I'm having a little problem with this scenario.

I have a system wide footer that I've traditionally solved with a server side include. I'm moving to PHP instead, and would like to imbed a short line of PHP code that looks like this:

<?php
echo date("Y");
?>

The code works perfectly in the main page, but never seems to work inside the include or virtual functions. The name of the included files is footer.inc.

First, is this posible?
Second, if so, do I have to do anything special to make it work?

evo4ever

do u get an error? or does it not include the file at all?

warnerb

I get garbage that appears to be the end of the first line.

evo4ever

Do u have the page to show me? maybe a link?

warnerb

The two files are attached as a single zip file.

warnerb

I think I just found the solution!

The include file must also have a PHP extenstion by renaming it to footer.php, it works perfectly!

Thanks for the offer to help!

evo4ever

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: virtual() in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\index2.php on line 18

I believe you havn't included that function in the index2.php for me.

warnerb

The virtual() function is an Apache specific function. Your path indicates you're running on a Micro$oft server.

In an attempt to do anything, I changed the name of the file extension to PHP, and it works fine. Thanks for the assist. Sometimes it helps just to bounce off of someone else.

Hope all is well in your part of the world. We're under two foot of snow right now.

PrivatePile

The reason you were getting garbled rubbish at the end of the page...was because it was not being processed by your PHP install so YES, the solution was to rename your file giving it a .php extension. However...there is no reason why you couldn't have "footer.inc.php" that should work too.

Things in this part of the world are pretty good thanks...no snow, but plenty of ice on my car in the mornings.. :-)