includes in templates

[bitterlittleman]

I've just started playing around with tmeplates and i'm trying to have as an include another php file (a generic navigation script). I can include the file and it run fine but it gets pushed to the top left og the outputted page rather than where it is defined in the actual template, This is the relevant bit of code, I guess.

// the news
$result= mysql_query("select news_id, news_text, news_date from news order by news_id desc limit 1");
extract(mysql_fetch_array($result));
//template stuff
$$menu = include ('nav.php');
include('template.inc');
$t = new Template("templates");
$t->set_file('input_one', 'matt.ihtml');
$t->set_var('menu', "$menu");
$t->set_var('newsdate', "$news_date");
$t->set_var('news', "$news_text");
$t->set_var('form', "$PHP_SELF");
$t->pparse('output', 'input_one');

Anyone?

[Anon]

Your problem is that include doesn't return anything that you can store in a variable. Include just substitutes the code in the file for itself. So if you had this file:

<?php
print "Hello World";
?>

Then you're code would look like this after it had been included

$$menu = <?php
print "Hello World";
?>

So as you can see that doesn't work. If you need to put the information in the nav.php script into a variable then you should use fopen, and fgets.