require_once doesn't work with variables

Paperdoll

Hi.. I'm really new to this and I have a problem that makes me go nuts!

I have this page, template.php. On the page I can include another page with require_once, like this:

This works fine, no problem. But when I change it to:

<?php require_once ("$page.html"); ?>

and use the url www.xxxxxx.com/template.php?page=mypage to get it, the browser doesn't return anything. Acually it stops right before the php code, and only writes out:

How stupid am I on a scale from 1-10 and what am I doing wrong? Please help!

Rodney_H_

OK. devinemke is correct 😃

devinemke

change this:

require_once("$page.html");

to this:

require_once($_GET['page'] . '.html');

additionally, you should validate the incoming $_GET['page'] variable first to make sure it is legit. perhaps store all allowable files in an array and use [man]in_array[/man] to validate.

Paperdoll

Ohhh I see! And it works! Wohoo! Thank you so much for taking the time.