[RESOLVED] Overlaping Includes Loading in Html

fwhilton

Hi... I am kind of new to PHP, but I am familar enough to poke around in it.

Here is my issue.
I am making a simple banner rotation app.
When I use two different "includes" in the body area, the data from Include01 loads into Include02 sometimes, but not all the time.

Why is my data from 01 loading into 02 includes in my html page?

HTML CODE..

<body>
ZONE 1<br>
<?php require "zone01.php"; ?>
<p></p>
ZONE 2<br>
<?php require "zone02.php"; ?>
</body>

ZONE01.PHP

<?php

## ENTER LINKS HERE
$Ad01[0] = '<a href="http://www.technipixel.com"><img src="banners/fupc_flier.jpg" border="0" /></a>';
$Ad01[1] = '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="300" height="100"><param name="movie" value="banners/test.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><embed src="banners/test.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="100"></embed></object>';

## ENTER WEIGHTS HERE
$Weight[0]=1;
$Weight[1]=2;


## CHOOSE AD
$sum =0;
for($i=0;$i<count($Weight);$i++)
$sum+=$Weight[$i];
$ShowAd = rand(0, $sum - 1);

for($i=0;$i<count($Weight);$i++)
{
    if($ShowAd<=$Weight[$i])
    {
        $ShowAd=$i;
    	break;
    }
    	else
    	$ShowAd-=$Weight[$i];
    }
    echo $Ad01[$ShowAd];

?>

ZONE02.PHP

<?php

## ENTER LINKS HERE
$Ad02[0] = '<a href="http://www.technipixel.com"><img src="banners/createexe.jpg" border="0" /></a>';
$Ad02[1] = '<a href="http://www.technipixel.com"><img src="banners/website_gleasonmedia.jpg" border="0" /></a>';
$Ad02[2] = '<a href="http://www.technipixel.com"><img src="banners/fupc_flier.jpg" border="0" /></a>';

## ENTER WEIGHTS HERE
$Weight[0]=1;
$Weight[1]=2;
$Weight[2]=2;

## CHOOSE AD
$sum =0;
for($i=0;$i<count($Weight);$i++)
$sum+=$Weight[$i];
$ShowAd = rand(0, $sum - 1);

for($i=0;$i<count($Weight);$i++)
{
    if($ShowAd<=$Weight[$i])
    {
        $ShowAd=$i;
    	break;
    }
    	else
    	$ShowAd-=$Weight[$i];
    }
    echo $Ad02[$ShowAd];

?>

Thanks
🙂

fwhilton

Just so you know,
Basically both ZONE.php files are the same except the actual links (Ads) and the Ads variable.

Could there be a caching problem or session is missing?

Not sure why a banner from zone02.php would be loading the in zone01.php call in the html file.

Zone02 is not loading in the zone01 include call.

Weird!

This is pretty simple, should be working.

🙂

fwhilton

Okay... I did firgure one thing out.
I replace everything in the ZONE02.PHP with just one line of code...

echo "THIS IS SOME TEXT";

That stopped the 1st include from going into the second.

So....... dooes that mean there is a "bleed through" of variables taking place between the two PHP files.

What now?

🙂

igorlopez

Not sure I am understanding your problem but from my limited knowledge your html page is telling the webserver to first process the statements in Zone01.php and afterwards to process the statements in Zone02.php which means that the statements in Zone02.php will always be aware of the data from Zone01.php.
So the way I see it is that something is wrong with

the data from Include01 loads into Include02 sometimes, but not all the time.

but then again I might be missing something obvious here.

fwhilton

I found it....

Duh.... I forgot to remove the image from the array.

Solved!

Weedpacket

Incidentally, if the two zone files are that similar, then you might as well put all the stuff they have in common into a generic zone.php file that zone01.php and zone02.php both include.

Then that common code can be wrapped up in a set of functions; zone.php would only be included once in the entire page, and zone01.php and zone02.php would just call those functions. This would also help get around that "bleeding" issue, because variables inside a function are automatically thrown away when the function returns.