Hiya!

I'm new here 😃

I'm struggling to find out if it's possible to call a function from within a variable. I'll show you what I mean:

<?php

function MyAds($arg)
{
$openads = file("$arg/ads.txt");
$selectedad = $openads[rand(0, count($openads) - 1)];
$selectedad = trim($selectedad);
echo "$selectedad";
}

$adcategory = "Games";

$gamesad1 = "Here is the ad MyAds($adcategory)";

echo $gamesad1;

?>

I know this doesn't work, but is there another way around it? Is there some way I can call a function with an echo? eg.

echo "Here is the ad MyAds($adcategory)";

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Matt

    I think this should do

    <?php 
function MyAds($arg) 
{ 
  $openads = file("$arg/ads.txt"); 
  $selectedad = $openads[rand(0, count($openads) - 1)]; 
  $selectedad = trim($selectedad); 
  // return rather than echo
  return $selectedad; 
} 

$adcategory = "Games"; 

//concatenate (join) the two strings together
$gamesad1 = 'Here is the ad ' . MyAds($adcategory); 

echo $gamesad1; 
?>

      thanks sarah that worked perfectly 🙂

        I have another question! 😃

        Inside ads.txt I have the following lines:

        <a href="http://www.sponsor.com?1231"><img src="http://adserver.com/Games/1.gif" alt="$sponsoralt" border="0"></a>

        <a href="http://www.sponsor.com?1231"><img src="http://adserver.com/Games/2.gif" alt="$sponsoralt" border="0"></a>

        Using this function:

        <?php 
function MyAds($arg) 
{ 
  $openads = file("$arg/ads.txt"); 
  $selectedad = $openads[rand(0, count($openads) - 1)]; 
  $selectedad = trim($selectedad); 
  // return rather than echo
  return $selectedad; 
} 

$adcategory = "Games"; 

//concatenate (join) the two strings together
$gamesad1 = 'Here is the ad ' . MyAds($adcategory); 

echo $gamesad1; 
?>

        Is there a way to make the $sponsoralt in ads.txt a variable? At the moment it's just displaying "$sponsoralt" which is really not that useful 🙂

        Thanks!

        Matt

          <a href="http://www.sponsor.com?1231"><img src="http://adserver.com/Games/2.gif" alt="<?php echo $sponsoralt; ?>" border="0"></a>

          you can stop and start php mode without losing the variables you have already created.

            Thanks for the quick reply!

            I probably should have been more specific, because I'm actually using this script to generate static pages, so having <?php tags doesn't work.

            Any other ideas?

              I'm actually using this script to generate static pages

              huh?

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