Include file from URL

[rfc]

Hello

I can't quite figure out how to include a file from the file URL. Eg, the file is "article.php" and if I go to "article.php?a=article1" it will load "article1.txt" from the "articles directory".

I think php Include would be the best way to do it, but I can;t figure it out.

Can anyone post the code I should use? I know its simple, but I can't figure it out - I'm not a PHP developer (just an ASP and HTML coder 😉 )

Thanks

[dagon]

unsafe but a start

	include($_GET[a].'.txt');

[nrg_alpha]

rfc;10900211 wrote:

I'm not a PHP developer (just an ASP and HTML coder 😉

I'm so sorry 🙂 (j/k... some friendly ribbing is all)..

If I understand you correctly, you want to include a simple php file into your document? If so, it could go like this:

include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/somefolder/article.php');

Where $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is automatically assigned the root of your site, and if there is a folder where article.php resides, use that folder, then the file.. if the file is in the root, then simply use $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/article.php' instead...

Is that what you are looking for?

[rfc]

lol 😉

I'm looking for a simple file where it includes the name after the file in the browser (so if it was article.php?a=1, it would take /articles/1.txt).

[nrg_alpha]

rfc;10900215 wrote:

lol 😉

I'm looking for a simple file where it includes the name after the file in the browser (so if it was article.php?a=1, it would take /articles/1.txt).

Hmm. do you mean?

include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/articles/1.txt');

I get the sense I may be misunderstanding something here...

[Installer]

GET, POST, etc. are http constructs. A local include doesn't involve http request/response, so the http query array is not involved and not set. PHP sees the include string (for local includes, without a protocol prefix) as a relative or absolute pathname. I believe the same is true for asp.

Since included code inherits the scope of the including code, just set the appropriate variable(s) before calling the include. For example:

$a = 'article1';
include 'article.php';

That relates to your first post. To do what you ask in you latest post:

$a = 1;
include 'article/' . $a . '.txt';

More in the PHP manual chapter on include.

[NogDog]

The $GET array contains var=value pairs from the URL query string, so you could do something like:

<?php
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/artilces';
$num = (isset($_GET['a'])) ? (int)$_GET['a'] : 0; // cast to int for security purposes
if(is_readable("$path/$num.txt"))
{
   include "$path/$num.txt";  // use readfile() instead of include if pure text (no PHP code)
}
else
{
   // error message, or include default file, or whatever you want to do
   // if invalid $_GET value received or no value received
}
?>

[rfc]

NogDog;10900224 wrote:

The $GET array contains var=value pairs from the URL query string, so you could do something like:

<?php
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/artilces';
$num = (isset($_GET['a'])) ? (int)$_GET['a'] : 0; // cast to int for security purposes
if(is_readable("$path/$num.txt"))
{
   include "$path/$num.txt";  // use readfile() instead of include if pure text (no PHP code)
}
else
{
   // error message, or include default file, or whatever you want to do
   // if invalid $_GET value received or no value received
}
?>

Thanks - that's what I meant (sorry I wasn't being very clear, English isnt my first lang).

But, it doesnt seem to find the file (I go to ?a=1 and it says that /articles/1.txt doesn't exist).

Here's my code:

<?php
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/articles';
$num = (isset($_GET['a'])) ? (int)$_GET['a'] : 0; // cast to int for security purposes
if(is_readable("$path/$num.txt"))
{
   include 'header.php';
   echo "<br>";
   include "$path/$num.txt";  // use readfile() instead of include if pure text (no PHP code)
   echo "<br>";
   include 'footer.php';
}
else
{
   // error message, or include default file, or whatever you want to do
   // if invalid $_GET value received or no value received
   include 'header.php';
    echo "<br> No articles found matching your criteria. <br>";
   include 'footer.php';
}
?> 

Sorry for being so newbish - it's Microsofts fault 😉