function question

[crawfd]

I'm trying to integrate an include (nav.php) in an echo in the following function. What is the proper syntax for this? What is below isn't working, thanks.

function navigationpass() {
echo "</td></tr></table></div></form></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD align=right width=104><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=100% border=0><TBODY><TR>
    <TD align=right>" . include("nav.php") . "</TD>
    </TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD align=left width=1 bgColor=#636363 rowSpan=2><IMG height=1 src=images/pixel.gif width=1></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top bgColor=#636363>
	<TD colSpan=4 height=1><IMG height=1 src=images/pixel.gif width=1></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY>";
	}

[swr]

What you are doing with "blah".include()."blah" is building a string, which is then echo'ed. But include() doesn't return a string, it sends a file directly to the output. So it's outputing the nav.php, then echoing "blahblah".

Try this instead:

echo "first part of the HTML";
include("nav.php");
echo "last part of the HTML";