sending information between scripts

[Anon]

this may be a very simple question but i cannot find any info on it.

i have a prebuilt tracking script that is called track.php3. i want to use this file on all my other scripts so i use:
include("track.php3");
when the script runs, however, it does not capture the users information. is there anything i can do short of having the actual script on every other script? any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

[Anon]

Not sure, but this might work.

Define your detail-grabbing code as a function in your track.php file.

Use either include or require to include your track.php file, then execute your function.

So in track you'd put your tracking information into track().

include("track.php3");

track();

That aughta work, but there is probably a better way. There is more than one way to do it 😉

[Anon]

Remeber that including a file isn't the same thing as defining a
function. That is, if the included file immediately starts with <?php
then it's as if the content were written in the enclosing script.
So the included file is not restricted to function definitions,
it can include global variables and in-line code as well.

So in your example, if 'track.php' includes a function called track(),
you can do it the way you described, but you could also include
the statement

&nbsp;&nbsp;track();

as the last line of the file (after any function definitions but before
the terminating ?> ) and then the track function will be called
anytime you include the file; you don't have to remember to
add the function call to you top-level source file.