[RESOLVED] php include issue

tobymac

hey all, i am using $toplinks and i get a Unexpected T_string the problem lies in the

$toplinks = '<a href="join_form.php">Register</a> &bull; <?php include 'login.php'; ?>';

part of the code below. how can i make that php include work for this toplinks?

<?php
session_start(); // Must start session first thing
/* 
Created By Adam Khoury @ www.flashbuilding.com 
-----------------------June 20, 2008----------------------- 
*/
// See if they are a logged in member by checking Session data
$toplinks = "";
if (isset($_SESSION['id'])) {
	// Put stored session variables into local php variable
    $userid = $_SESSION['id'];
    $username = $_SESSION['username'];
	$toplinks = '<a href="member_profile.php?id=' . $userid . '">' . $username . '</a> &bull; 
	<a href="member_account.php">Account</a> &bull; 
	<a href="logout.php">Log Out</a>';
} else {
	$toplinks = '<a href="join_form.php">Register</a> &bull; <?php include 'login.php'; ?>';
}

Derokorian

you need to escape the quotes around login.php

tobymac

how do i do that?

Derokorian

<?php 
// use all your code I'm only posting part back
} else { 
    $toplinks = '<a href="join_form.php">Register</a> &bull; <?php include \'login.php\'; ?>'; 
}

tobymac

thank you, i pasted that 1 line but now i am having this problem

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' ... on line 22

tobymac

PS. line 22 is the usual

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

Derokorian

do you have a closing php tag ?>

tobymac

i couldn't find one, here is my entire page, Please see what you can do

<?php
session_start(); // Must start session first thing
/* 
Created By Adam Khoury @ www.flashbuilding.com 
-----------------------June 20, 2008----------------------- 
*/
// See if they are a logged in member by checking Session data
$toplinks = "";
if (isset($_SESSION['id'])) {
	// Put stored session variables into local php variable
    $userid = $_SESSION['id'];
    $username = $_SESSION['username'];
	$toplinks = '<a href="member_profile.php?id=' . $userid . '">' . $username . '</a> &bull; 
	<a href="member_account.php">Account</a> &bull; 
	<a href="logout.php">Log Out</a>';
} else {
	 $toplinks = '<a href="join_form.php">Register</a> &bull; <?php include \'login.php\'; ?>'; 
}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">



<head>

<title>Harbor City Records</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />



<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">



<style>

#bodydiv

{

height: 950px;

}

</style>



</head>

<body>

	<div id="container">

 	<div id="content">

	<?php include 'hcrheader/header.php'; ?>
	<?php echo $toplinks; ?>
	<div id="navbar">

	<?php include 'menu.php'; ?>
</div>

	<div id="bodydiv">

<table style="width: 870px; height: 500px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; width: 150px; white-space: nowrap;"><?php include 'latestnews.php'; ?></td>
<td style="width: 562px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;">
<table style="text-align: left; width: 552px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.harborcityrecords.com/hcrindienetwork/msd/join_form.php"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 138px; height: 296px;" alt="" src="http://www.harborcityrecords.com/hcrindienetwork/graphics/msd.jpg"></a></td>
<td><img style="width: 138px; height: 296px;" alt="" src="http://www.harborcityrecords.com/hcrindienetwork/graphics/vsd.jpg"></td>
<td><img style="width: 138px; height: 296px;" alt="" src="http://www.harborcityrecords.com/hcrindienetwork/graphics/mgd.jpg"></td>
<td><img style="width: 138px; height: 296px;" alt="" src="http://www.harborcityrecords.com/hcrindienetwork/graphics/vgd.jpg"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><?php include 'featured-artist.php'; ?></td>
</tr></tbody>
</table>
</div>

	<div id="footer">

</div>

	<div id="underfooter">

<p class="footer">&copy 2011 HCR Network is a subsidary of Harbor City Records LLC. All Rights Reserved.</p>





</div>

</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Derokorian

     $toplinks = '<a href="join_form.php">Register</a> &bull; <?php include \'login.php\'; ?>'; 
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

tobymac

sweet! it works! Thank You!, but now the 'login.php' will not show up, i am thinking it has to do with the login file itself, should i paste that for you or make a new thread?

tobymac

The <?php include \'login.php\'; ?>'; is not working, it is not showing anything i put in that php file.

bradgrafelman

That's because it's just text in a string. PHP doesn't look inside every string you create and see if there is some code it could execute as PHP code.

I'm not sure what the best way would be to go about what you're trying to do, mostly because I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do.

tobymac

if you go to http://www.hcrindienetwork.com/index2.php you will see the "register * Log In" on the page, where it says "login" i want it to be the acual login form.