Require to a variable

[rowanparker]

Hello, it's my first post but here goes.

I would like to require a page but then eregi_replace() some things after requiring. Therefore I was wondering if it was possible to require a page into a variable or if not is there any other way of doing it?

Thanks, Rowan.

[etully]

A better technique is to put the ereg_replace commands inside the required file and set some variables before you require the file that tell the required file how to behave.

For example, let's say you had a footer.php script that you wanted to require but you wanted the footer to behave a little differently each place the footer was called. Let's say you want the phone number to be 555-1111 on some pages and 555-2222 on other pages. You might do this:

$display_phone = "555-1212";
require("footer.php");

And then inside footer.php, you have something like this:
Our phone number is <? print "$display_phone"; ?> and you may call us anytime.

Or, to use an ereg_replace example, you might require the footer like this:

$replace_phone = "555-1111";
require("footer.php");

And your footer has this:
$string = (obtain some value from a database) ;
$string = ereg_replace("Insert Phone Number",$replace_phone);
print "$string";

[matt72]

You can use: $var = file_get_contents("file.txt");

[rowanparker]

Thanks.
Although there is one slight problem: the file isn't on my server, it's on somebody else's. So therefore i cannot edit it.
Is there anyway to do it?

Thanks, Rowan.

[etully]

Use fread or curl to obtain the HTML of a remote web page into a variable and then, as you said, user ereg_replace to swap out their name for yours.

[rowanparker]

Ok, thanks.
I'll give it a go and tell you what happens.