Grabbing variables from included file.

Anon

I am trying to design a templating system which uses the standard header, footer a site-wide left nav bar and a section specific right nav bar.

The page.php page template looks like this:

<? require ("/usr/local/apache/htdocs/iwww/inc/init.inc"); ?>
<? include ("inc/header.inc"); ?>
<? include ("inc/left_nav.inc"); ?>
<? include ("$c.php"); ?>
<? include ("inc/$rightbar"); ?>
<? include ("inc/footer.inc"); ?>

The init.inc page has a block of code that tests for the $section variable and assigns a value for $rightbar. That all.

The $c page(s) contain the content for each page. At the top of each $c page, I am declaring several variables ($section, $page_title) which correspond to what type of right nav bar should be displayed for this page.

All goes well until the <? include ("inc/$rightbar"); ?> is encountered. Obviously (at least to me) this variable is not yet available to the init.inc script to set the value of $rightbar. So I get "flex scanner" errors.

So my question is how can I grab the variables set on the $c page before it is included, so I can set up how the eventual page is built?

Many thanks.

-- Guyle

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not sure.. but here's a few thoughts..
make sure the variable is a valid dir/file
try globalizing the variables before using them

Anon

How would I "globalize" a variable on an included page? Can you explain please.

Thanks.

-- Guyle

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What's the exact error you get?

Anon

what I get is this.

Fatal Error: flex scanner in file /usr/local/apache/htdocs/inc.

This has to do with the variables in the "included page" not being seen or parsed, which then prevents the dynamic navigation bar from being pulled in.

What I'm trying to do is declare variables like this on the content pages:
<? $section="News"; ?>
<? $page_name="My Page Name"; ?>

And in the main parsing script, test for those variables and make a dynamic rightnav for the appropriate section pulled into the completed page, and also have the page title/name set. This is will make it much easier for my web contributors to develop pages withing this templating scheme.

So my problem is still trying to get those variables on the included page recognized.

Thanks much for your help.

-- Guyle