[Resolved] putting the contents of a page into a variable

[tuf-web_co_uk]

hi,

i have a page i want to include into one of my pages, which forms a template

but when i include it, everything is outputted, before anything else is, i need the include not to output anything until the template variable is outputted

i found that adding each line of the include into a variable works, but i would need to do this for several pages

here is my page

<?

session_start();

include ("includes/template.inc");
include ("includes/functions.inc");
include ("includes/common.inc");

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `pageinfo` WHERE `page`='".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."'";
$qry = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die(mysql_error());

$row = mysql_fetch_array($qry);

$index = $row['update'];
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `update` WHERE `id` = '$index' LIMIT 0,1";
$query = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die(mysql_error());
$test = mysql_fetch_array($query);
if ($test['updating'] == '1') {
	$url = "http://www.theutherfish.com/update.php";
	die(Header('Location: '. $url));
}

$tpl = new Template("templates", "remove");

$tpl -> set_file(array(
		"header" => "header.tpl",
		"footer" => "footer.tpl",
		"style" => "style.tpl",
		"body" => "body.tpl",
		"message" => "message.tpl"));

$menuitem = $row['menu'];
$tpl -> set_var(ADVERT, ad_banner());
$tpl -> set_var(MENU, menu($menuitem));

$title = $row['pagename'];
if($title=='' || !isset($title)) { 
	$tpl -> set_var(TITLE, "theutherfish.com - [Home] - the best thing since sliced bread");
}
else {
	$tpl -> set_var(TITLE, "theutherfish.com - [".ucwords($title)."] - the best thing since sliced bread");
}

$location = $row['pagename'];
if($location=='' || !isset($location)) { 
	$tpl -> set_var(LOCATION, "Home");
}
else {
	$tpl -> set_var(LOCATION, ucwords($location));
}

if (file_exists("pages/".$row['pagename'].".php")) {
	$pageinfo = "pages/".$row['pagename'].".php";
}
else {
	die("File Does Not Exist");
}

$tpl -> set_var(PAGECONTENT, include($pageinfo));

$tpl -> parse("header_out", array("style", "header"));
$tpl -> parse("footer_out", "footer");
$tpl -> parse("body_out", "body");

$tpl -> p("header_out");
$tpl -> p("body_out");

?>

and this is my include

<?

if (isset($_GET['cat']) && $_GET['cat'] != '') {

echo ucwords($_GET["cat"]).' Jokes';
echo '<br><br><hr><p>';

$query = "SELECT * from jokes WHERE type='".$_GET['cat']."'";
$run = mysql_query($query, $conn) or die(mysql_error());
$up = mysql_query("UPDATE `jokes` SET `viewed` = `viewed` + 1 WHERE `type` = '".$_GET[cat]."'");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($run)) {

	$joke = $row[JokeText];
	$joke = format(0,0,1,1,$joke);

	echo "$joke<br><br>";

}


}

else {

echo "welcome to theutherfish.coms jokes section<br><br>";

echo "here you'll find jokes in various subjects to tickle your funny bone,
and make your jaw bone hurt<br><br>";

echo "we always are looking for new jokes and thats why you can submit your own <a href=\"./addjoke.php\" class=\"user\">here</a><br><br>";

}

?>       			
<hr>
<p>

<?
$cat = "SELECT DISTINCT `type` FROM `jokes`";
$cat_qry = mysql_query($cat, $conn) or die(mysql_error());

echo '<form name="jokecat" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="GET">';
echo 'Select A Category : <select class="user" name="cat" size="1" onChange="document.jokecat.submit()">';
echo '<option selected>Category....</option>';

while ($cat_arr = mysql_fetch_array($cat_qry)) {

echo '<option>'.ucwords($cat_arr["type"]).'</option>';

}

echo '</select>';
echo '&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="GO" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0; padding-left: 4; padding-right: 4; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1">';
echo '</form>';
echo 'Add A Joke : <a href="./add_joke.php" class="user">Click Here</a><br><br>';

?>

also this way where the output is meant to be the number 1 is displayed

[designguy79]

I think PHP's "Output Buffering" is just what you need...

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php

Also, please note that the "include" statement are just like you copied and pasted the code you included right into that location.

Get familiar with "include":

http://us2.php.net/include/

Hope that helps!

[tuf-web_co_uk]

hi, thanks for the advice

i have never actually used the output control functions of php so i have no idea of how they work

i followed your other link to the includes function and got some information but using fread didnt work either, because it showed the actually php code instead of running it and outputting what should have been outputted on a normal php page

any help, on how i can use output buffers to do this?

thanks, Comms

[designguy79]

Unfortunately, I don't have time to re-write your code, and there are already some good resources on how to use PHP's output buffering functions... my search at Google found this one that looked pretty helfpul:

http://codewalkers.com/tutorialpdfs/tutorial44.pdf

Have fun!

[tuf-web_co_uk]

thank you very much

you wouldnt believe how easily that tutorial helped me

i had looked at about 10 lines of code and already found my answer

thanks again designguy

[HalfaBee]

I didn't read the tut, but you can always load the file using
$str = file_get_contents( 'filename' );
or
$array_of_lines = file( 'filename' );

if the file is just a HTML template.

[brucec]

I had the same issue.

I found that assigning the include function as a variable and then using the variable works.

[tuf-web_co_uk]

in my case it was a php file, i used the following and found it worked exactly as needed

<?
ob_start();
include($pageinfo);
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>

?>