process php in a loaded file..

screative

I have this:
$title = "Welcome";
$html = implode('', file('/Library/WebServer/Documents/template.php'));
print $html;

template.php has some php in it.. an example would be this: $title

when i load the template how do I make it also process the php in the template? or is it just better to do a find and replace for things it the template.php file instead of getting php to process things in the template file?

here is my template.php file:

<html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
</head>
<body></body
</html>

thorpe

I dont at all understand what your trying to do here. Wouldn't a simple include() make more sense? eg;

<?php
  $title = 'Welcome';
  include '/Library/WebServer/Documents/template.php';
?>

screative

yeah.. for some reason when i was including the php file the $title wasn't being processed. This ways seems to work and looks to be the better way for what I am doing.

I just put ![title]! in the place where I had $title.

$html= File_Get_Contents('/Library/WebServer/Documents/template.html');

$find[] = '![title]!';

$find[] = '![keywords]!';

$find[] = '![body]!';

$find[] = '![parenttitle]!';

$replace[] = $xml->title;
$replace[] = $xml->keywords;
$replace[] = $xml->body;
$replace[] = $xmlparent->title;

$html = str_replace($find, $replace, $html);

print $html;

leatherback

Read Thorpes post. Use include.

But if you are confident that you have chosen a wise path.. [man]eval[/man] might be of help

screative

yeah.. i use includes all the time with coldfusion.. just for some reason when i include with php the php code in the included file is not evaluated automagicly in this instance.

I mess around with eval.

thanks

adrian_melange

I agree with Thorpes. Using includes is a better option.

U might wanna check why the variables or constants do not get accross when u include files.

U can start by checking where are your include files located? Verify this with the PHP.INI (under "include_path"). FYI, the "include_path" in the php.ini tells where is the default folder or location that all the included files shd be located.

HTH.

bradgrafelman

I just want to make one thing clear: "including" a PHP file is NOT the same as reading the .php file. The only thing functions like [man]file_get_contents/man or [man]file/man do is read the data of the file into a variable. That's it. Using [man]include[/man], however, processes the file and executes the PHP code.

screative

yeah.. i resorted to file_get_contents() because it sticks it into string that I used in my find and replaces.