[Resolved] Include not getting Variable...$_GET[]

Arc

Hey guys. I have a page that is including a page in a sub directory.

Example:

MainPage.php is inlcuding "dealername/dealer.php".

On each page a variable called DealerName is passed thru the URL as DealerName=$dealerName

I am able to use $_GET['DealerName'] to get the dealers name on all pages that are in the main directory. But when I try to get the dealername with the include that is in the sub directory it won't read it.

If I use $dealerName = $_GET['DealerName'] and then
print $dealerName; then $dealerName is just blank. But it only comes out blank when I try to use it in the include from this sub directory.

Is this a known issue? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

laserlight

Post the smallest and simplest script that demonstrates this problem.

Arc

I figured out the problem. I am not sure why this was causing the problem, but if you use the entire URL to include a file it will not be able to access the $_GET[] array.

for example: If you use include("includes/gettext.php") then you can access the $_GET[] array, but if you use include("http://www.mydomain.com/includes/gettext.php") then you can not access the $GET[] array. It probably affects other things as well, but it definately does affect that at least.

laserlight

I am not sure why this was causing the problem, but if you use the entire URL to include a file it will not be able to access the $_GET[] array.

If you read the PHP Manual's note on [man]include[/man], you would have noticed:

If "URL fopen wrappers" are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be included using a URL (via HTTP or other supported wrapper - see Appendix L for a list of protocols) instead of a local pathname. If the target server interprets the target file as PHP code, variables may be passed to the included file using a URL request string as used with HTTP GET. This is not strictly speaking the same thing as including the file and having it inherit the parent file's variable scope; the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is then being included into the local script.