Running PHP file from inside PHP

[bobfarq]

I have a form, the results of which do a database (mysql) query, to give a list of authors. The user can then select the author to get further information. This uses a link with a get which sends the information to another php script called get_auth.php.

What I want to do is to run this get_auth.php script directly from the first PHP script if there is only one author, without having to bother the user with an unecessary click. How do I do this and pass the required arguments?

Bob

[devinemke]

if the result count from the inital query is 1 then [man]include[/man] the get_auth.php script.

[bobfarq]

I had tried using include, but the script was written to provide a complete page with header and navbar etc and that got included as well. It does work if I create another script with all that taken out, but I rather hoped there was a way of just running the script in the same way as clicking on a link does. I looked at exec, but that had far too many problems on Windows to want to try that way.

[devinemke]

[man]include[/man] the get_auth.php script before you output anything to the browser, thereby allowing it to output all of the relavent HTML.

[bobfarq]

Thanks. I need to change things around a litle to do that, but it's definitely the way to go.

Bob