include in parts

rhytha

hi guys iam a newbie. i like you guys to help me out on this...

i like to make a php page which takes content out of another php file. i know include does this, but i don't want to take the whole code, just parts of a page, for example one php file(x.php) has 10 tables. i am have 3 pages(eg. 1.php,2.php,3.php).

i want the 1.php page to get the first 3 tables from x.php,
2.php to get the next 3 tables

and so on and so forth.

i need this beacause my client needs to update his page's frequently and he does'nt know much of php or html, and i want him to edit only one page so that, it gets reflected in other pages.

thanx in advance😉

muthukumar prakasham😃

Morital

if 1.php will always get the first 3 tables from x.php why not try to set this tables to variables?

/* content of x.php */

$var1 = '<table id="1">
.....
</table>
<table id="2">
....
</table>
<table id="3">
...
</table>';

$var2 = '<table id="4">
.....';
$var3 = '<table id="7">
....';

/* then in 1.php do: */
include("x.php");
echo $var1;

rhytha

hi morital thanx for the reply, but its not working

this the code i used

x.php

<?
var1='<table id="1"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table>';
<br>
<br>
var2='<table id="2"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table>';
<br>
<br>
</body></html>

1.php

<html>
<head>Testing</head>

<body>

<?
include('x.php');
echo $var1;
?>

</p>
</body>
</html>

but iam getting a blank page for 1.php.

whats wrong with the code??

thanx in advance

Morital

You have an error in your code:

/* your code is here */
<?
var1='<table id="1"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table>';
<br>
<br>
var2='<table id="2"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table>';
<br>
<br>
</body></html> 
........
/* shuld be */
<?
$var1='<table id="1"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table><br><br>';
/* <br> is a HTML tag and PHP is tring to parse it and you get an error */
$var2='<table id="2"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table><br><br>';
</body></html>

/* other way is to quit from php and return in HTML */
<?
$var1='<table id="1"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table>'; ?>
<br>
<br>
<?
$var2='<table id="2"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table>'; ?>
<br>
<br>
</body></html>

And you dont need to do include("x.php"); every time you have to use variable from x.php in 1.php, just do it once in the begining of 1.php or just before calling
echo $var;

rhytha

hi morital, i tried what u said, no luck🙁 , i have copy pasted the scripts here. you can take a look at 1.php here

http://rhytha.com/clients/maha1/1.php

x.php

var1='<table id ="1"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table><br><br>';
var2='<table id="2"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table>';

1.php

<html>
<head>
<? include('x.php'); ?>
</head>
Testing
<p> </p>
<p>

<?

echo $var1;
?>

</p><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr><hr><p>

<?
echo $var2;
?>

</p>
</body>
</html>

ClevaTreva

Just looking at your last post, if what is in your x.php file is as you wrote, you missed the $ string sign at the front of the vars, should be:

x.php

$var1='<table id =\"1\"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table><br><br>';
$var2='<table id=\"2\"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table>';

ALSO. Note the slashes in front of double quotes. Without these PHP sees your code like this

x.php

var1='<table id ="
/ above line has error no end of line ; /
1"><tr><td>first table</tr></td></table><br><br>';
/above line has no operation/function /
var2='<table id="
/ above line has error no end of line ; /
2"><tr><td>Second table</tr></td></table>';
/above line has no operation/function /

Well, you get the idea!

Trevor
PS, what editor do you use. A decent one would highlight these errors for you. I use AceHTML pro and it puts the error in pink!

Morital

hi rhytha, here is your code in 2 files: 1.php and tables.php. i insert a little form in 1.php so u can choose from this file wich table from tables.php to load. if u change any of the file names dont forget to change those in the script source also.

if my server is on u can test it at:
http://morital.no-ip.info/public/rhytha/1.php

here is the zip:

rhytha

thanx a lot morital, it works fine now. i had downloaded the code and went thru it, and the probelm is as trveor said, i did'nt put $ before var's.

thanx a lot morital😃 😃 😃

trevor i use DW. it did'nt hightlight any error's.

thanx trevor for you help as well🆒 🆒