require() partial files

aa-true-vicious

Okay, I have two files:

top.x

<?
session_start();

$showframes = 1;

if(isset($_GET["h"]) && isset($_GET["w"]))
  {
  $_SESSION["h"] = $_GET["h"];
  $_SESSION["w"] = $_GET["w"];
  ?>

<html>

<head>
<title>Title goes here</title>
</head>

<body>

<table width="80%">
  <tr>
    <td colspan=3>
    <? require("banner.php"); ?>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
    <? require("menu.php"); ?>
    </td>

<td>

And

bottom.x

    <? require("footer.php"); ?>
    </td>

<td>
<? require("ads.php"); ?>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>


</body>

</html>

  <?
  }
else
  {
  header("Location: index.php");
  }

?>

Now each page; eg main.php (below) has a require statement at the top [require("top.x");] and on down the bottom [require("bottom.x");]

In effect, each page should basically have the content of top.x copy and pasted into the top of the page and the content of bottom.x pasted at the bottom of the page

However, I get these two errors:
Parse error: parse error in top.x on line 40
Parse error: parse error in bottom.x on line 16

Whats wrong and how do I get arround it?

main.php

<?
require("top.x");

// Page content here

require("bottom.x");
?>

superwormy

if / else / while / switch / for cannot span multiple files. Fix that and you'll be all set.

WinterDragon

um, each file you are trying to require, needs to be a 'whole' script, or set of functions, or just a single function, you can't have

<?php

if($this == "that") {
echo "test";

in one file... then

}
?>

in another file...

You are missing brackets, thats what its saying...

Dax

the scripts should work if its seperate from each other then you do
<?
include 'top.php';
?>
//page content
<?
include 'bottom.php';
?>

make sure to make these two files completely independent