Getting information from other files

[searlyn]

I want to access other files on my php page but I only need one section from the accessed file. What can I use other than require (); ?

[drew010]

there is really no way to only include part of a file, but it should work just fine including the whole thing unless other parts of it will actually do some output or variable modifying you dont want. if that is the case, just manually cut the text you need into its own file(s) for inclusion.

[codeDV]

The best thing to do woul.d be to split your include file into functions (modules). When you use include / require nothing will happen unless you call a spcific function from within the main script.

To extract only parts of a file you'd need to use regular expressions, which gets a bit complicated.