Thread: including files in php

Once again I need your help.

I am still learning php 4, and from what I've learnt already, it's extremely cool a language. But I still have a doubt, and it is imperative that I know how to do this, or something similar in php 4

When I do ASP, I can have the server totally paste a file inside another file when something's requested doing something like this

<!-- #include file="validate.asp" -->

which happens to be pretty cool since I can write functions that are used in many (if not all) files in another file, include it and call the function(s) when I need them

I am currently moving my site from Intel/Windows NT/IIS/ASP/ODBC to SPARC/Solaris 9/Apache/PHP/MySQL, but I have a good structure in ASP, and I need to code the other page based on the first one.

I need to be able to write functions that I can access from any file, so the first way I thought of doing so was with inline file including; but I read that you can make functions to be included in your PHP server... that would be good too.

Does anyone knows how to do either of these solutions?

Oskilian

Thanks, I noticed that

<?php include_once 'myfile.php' ?>

also works

Oskilian

Originally posted by oskilian
Thanks, I noticed that

<?php include_once 'myfile.php' ?>

also works

Oskilian

include_once() is different from include()
I suggest you taking a look :
Include()

Include_once()

To compare it with C/C++ you can say:

include:
#include "file"

include once:
#ifndef include
#define include
#include "file"
#endif
(assuming that you use the define thingy everywhere this file is included...)