argument not redirecting

zoobie

Checking for a login, I have the html displayed. Without login, I have the page redirected. I've got it working but wondering if theres a better way?

<?php
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './buskers/';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_LOGIN);
init_userprefs($userdata);
if($userdata['session_logged_in'])
{
?>
<html></html>
<?php
}
else
{
header ("Location: video.php");
}
?>

Unfortunately, I can't echo includes on my server...so I'm using this method of displaying the html

Thanks

NogDog

zoobie;10879903 wrote:
...Unfortunately, I can't echo includes on my server...

Huh? You don't normally echo includes. You just execute includes, and if they happen to do any echoing themselves, then that gets output. It is possible to have an include return a value, which you could then echo, but that is very rarely done, at least in any code I've seen.

zoobie

NogDog;10879933 wrote:
Huh? You don't normally echo includes. You just execute includes, and if they happen to do any echoing themselves, then that gets output.

No wonder...I've been asking at 3 places but nobody seemed to know... For example, I cannot echo an include that contains simple html in it(inc/menu.php)...like so:

echo '<html><body>
include ("inc/menu.php");
</body></html>';

Anything wrong with starting and stopping the code as I posted? I happened to remember some clever coder here who showed me that.

NogDog

What I suspect you want is:

<?php
echo '<html><body>';
include ("inc/menu.php");
echo '</body></html>';
?>

Or a bit simpler, perhaps:

<html><body>
<?php include ("inc/menu.php"); ?>
</body></html>

zoobie

Thanks...Your bottom example definitely doesn't work with my server...with or without tags. I'll try your first example tonight for my edification.

Musclebundt

As NogDog says, you can't echo an include. Let's assume you had an included php file with some variables, then you could echo those variables, use functions etc. from the included file.

zoobie

By stopping and starting the argument itself, I was, again, able to insert html into the else statement achieving 2 pages within one file...very efficiently...doing away with the redirect page...and not having to stop and start the echo and dissect any navigational includes...just popped the whole page in 🙂

if($userdata['session_logged_in'])
{
?>
<html></html>
<?php
}
else
{
?>
<html></html>
<?php
}
?>