POST request and require_once

eltooob

Hi folks,
I have been working on this problem for few hours now and I cannot find the solution online :
I want to call a php file in another php using require once but I also want to be able to add a variable in that constraint

For instance I would like have something like that :
require_once("example.php?x=2")

the page example.php?x=2 exists but the browser send the following error message :

[function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

Does someone knows how I can call this page with the variable ?

BTW thank you for this great website !

bradgrafelman

The problem is your ambiguous use/notion of the word "call." When you visit a URL in your browser that includes a query string (e.g. "?x=2"), the Apache web server parses it and hands it on to PHP as parameters.

When you're using [man]require_once/man, PHP is working with the actual file system. It's reading in the file specified and evaluating it for PHP code, so it should make sense that you can't use a query string when reading files from your file system.

You could instead simply define a variable before you call require_once() since variables in the same scope from the calling script will be available inside the called script.

eltooob

thank you for you answer but I am not sure I know how to define the variable within the php document.
my point is that I use open flash chart (http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/) and I have to call the json doc I created. so the adress is example.php?ofc=data.json
So I tried to go in my php code and write the code:
<?php
$ofc="data.json"
...
?>
but apparently it doesn't work ... do you have any idea on how I could avoid that problem ?