Calling external php page

[Anon]

Maybe it's a stupid problem, but I can't resolve it...
I'm inside a php page,
I get results from a DB query and I want to launch an external php page with the database results as parameters

<?php
//header("Content-Type: text/xml\n\n");
include('connectdb.php');

$query = "SELECT userID FROM users
	WHERE (condition)";
$result = mysql_query($query);

while (list($userID) = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
	include('logout.php?userid=$userID');
	}

?>

The include
include('logout.php?userid=$userID')
doesn't work... 🙁

[[deleted]]

You don't need to use the '?userid=$userID'
As soonas you include() any code into your script, the code becomes part of your script, and so the vars are available in the included code immediately.

[Anon]

May a redirect to the external page do as well?

In that case, just use the header command.

header("Location: logout.php?userid=$userID");

(By the way; if you are using single quotes, the variables might not be parsed correctly by php..., referring to the include('logout.php?userid=$userid') which will result in just what´s typed inside the quotes.)

Hope this wasn´t too confusing...

[Anon]

ok...
but the problem is that the requested external page (the one I want to call) starts with

if(!$userid) {
echo "<NOT_ENOUGH_PARAMETERS/>";
break;
}

so I need to pass parameters explicitly! 🙁

[[deleted]]

1) checking for a var is not the same as checking for arguments.

2) If you use the same name in the parent script and in the included script, there is no (zero) difference with passing the vars as GET vars using "?userid=$userid"

3) Take care when using a "break" in an uncluded file.
The included file becomes part of the main script, and so it will cause a break in the main script too. Beware.

[Anon]

The PHP documentation says you can't pass parameter using the include ...

The other thing, I find really weird: you can't create a 'function.php' file, in which you put all the function you needs and call them from the main page ... You get the error function is not defined ... 🙁( Anyone has an Idea ? 😉

PS: You can only use variables from the main page in your called page with PHP 4 ... in PHP 3 it doesn't work ... damned 😉

[[deleted]]

In PHP 4 at least it is completely possible to use function from an included file.
That is the most used function of include files 🙂