Echo statement not working, what am i doing wrong?

[GSP]

Hiya... I'm having problems with this echo statement. I simplified it right down and it still not work. This is what i am doing.

FILENAME - test.php

<?php
$test = test;
include ('http://www.free-myspace-premade-layouts.com/test1.php'); 
?>

FILENAME - test1.php

<?php
echo $test;
?>

When i access test.php, it pulls in test1.php fine but does not echo $test.

HELP ME PLEASE... (thanks in advance)

[szz]

Do NOT use absolute paths!
That way only the output(ie. the returned markup) of script is included (in your case nothing - an empty string)

include('directory/test1.php');

[thorpe]

Where do you define the constant test? I'll assume you meant test to be a string... strings are surrounded by quotes in php.

$test = 'test';

[Weedpacket]

URLs are not the same thing as file paths. As it says in the manual about using URLs in [man]include[/man]:

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.