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Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:39 am
by kirk93
Hi i have been studying php,html,css and java for about 4 years now and there is one code that i have played around with done what i think i can do but it still does not work.

//here is the code that has something wrong with it
<?php $month = date("F");
include("calender/$month.txt"); ?>
/ end of code

I have proberly misses somthing but please help

Re: Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:16 am
by KrypticNinja
I'm guessing it keeps looking for a file called $month.txt, instead of the actual month.

you could call the include like this:

include("calendar/". $month . ".text");

I've had a lot of simmilar problems myself. Apparently it has something to do with the way PHP interprets strings with double quotes. I've also seen people use curly brackets {} around variables in strings, that seems to help as well.

Hope that helps.

Re: Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:52 am
by kirk93
<?php $month = date("F"); include("calender/".$month.".txt"); ?>

changed to that and still no hope

i dont know what else to try

Re: Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:28 am
by KrypticNinja
it may help if you post the code, seeing it all together may help to find the problem.

Re: Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:34 am
by kirk93
that is it its at the top of the last reply

Re: Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:14 pm
by flying_circus

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<?php
  $month = date("F");
  include_once("calender/".$month.".txt");  // Includes "calender/March.txt"
?>
This will include a file "calender/March.txt".
What error message are you getting? How does it "not work"?

Re: Help with this code

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:23 pm
by kirk93
hi sorry it workes now the file was called march.txt not March.txt

thanks for your help