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Using PHP code to load further PHP code from a file

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:21 am
by bones
Hi,

I new to the whole concept of php and i want to build a dynamic web page.
I'm using conditional coding to load external files containing html and php code.
I would load the file into an array and then echo the array. This works fine for
the html code in the file but, the php code just gets ignored by the server.
e.g.
The file test.php contains the following:
<h1> Hello World </h1><br>
<?php echo 'Hello World' ?>


this is an extract of index.php :
$file_1 = '/var/www/test.php';
$data_1 = file_get_contents($file_1);
echo $data_1;


then both
Hello World
and
<?php echo 'Hello World' ?>

gets passed to the browser without the php code being parsed to the server.
Any Ideas?

Thanks

Re: Using PHP code to load further PHP code from a file

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:12 am
by Zyxist
As far as I've understood your problem, you can simply do:

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include '/var/www/test.php';
This will handle both fully static files and files with PHP code snippets and is the simplest and most effective way. Note that if you are going to read a file name from an URL or HTML form, you have to secure it against various attacks. Otherwise such script would be extremely dangerous.

PS. file_get_contents() does not produce any array, but just a string with the file content.

Re: Using PHP code to load further PHP code from a file

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:27 am
by bones
Thanks that solved my problem 100%!
Also thanks for the advice on the security, I'll have to look up on that.