Include Issue

I can't get include files to pick up variables from the "parent" script... like this:

file1.php

<? $state="illinois";
include('http://www.mysite.com/file2.php');
?>

file2.php
<? echo $state; ?>

It also doesn't work if i change the include url to: http://www.mysite.com/file2.php?state=$state, then do a GET on file2 to catch the parameter.

Any ideas?

 

Try using a relative URL.

 

Thanks.. that solution took about 1 min. Didn't think of that.

 

Just to add to that: 99.9% of the time, including via HTTP is wrong and won't work as expected. Well, it works as expected when you understand what is happening

Always use filesystem paths unless you know WHY you're including via HTTP.

 

You can always just download the HTML into a variable so you don't have to include via HTTP.

 

I think the second problem you may need to have:

include('http://www.mysite.com/file2.php?state=.' echo $state; .'');

PHP:

Instead of:

http://www.mysite.com/file2.php?state=$state

 

You can't do that, it will give an error. This would work though:

include('file2.php?state=' .  $state);

PHP:

 

lol..variables can't be passed via http unless you use a GET, POST COOKIE etc method.