[RESOLVED] require with $_GET variables

Greetings.

I'm trying to do a require with get variables as below:

require_once('admin/header.php?item=Users&oper=Add');

So I can dynamically show the header as 'Add Users'.

Require is failing as it is considering the parameters as part of the filename.

I've took a look at PHP's documentation and it states (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php):

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

So I've tried replacing require for include, but it's still failing.

If I remove the parameters it works.

Is this possible?

Please someone help.

TIA,

why bother with the GET vars at all, simply do:

$item = 'Users';
$oper = 'Add';
require_once('admin/header.php');

the required file (header.php) will inheirit the variable scope of the parent script.

Follow devinemke's suggestion.

For clarification, the reason why your first approach doesn't work is that

admin/header.php

is a file name, and filenames don't have querystrings, but

http://www.example.com/file.php

is a URL, which can have querystrings attached. It helps to keep the difference in mind because they do work quite differently.

Absolutely correct, man, I'm dumb!

I was calling it as a file while I should call it as an URL.

Thanks a lot for opening my eyes.