adding another include to passthru.php

I'm using passthru.php to serve co-op ads on html sites.

I was looking at including a randomquote.php file.

my.htaccess file looks like this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^(.*).htm [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^(.*).html [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)       /passthru.php?file=$1
</IfModule>

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

Code (markup):

Using SSI doesn't work unless I remove the first part relating to passthru.php

So as an alternative I tried adding an include to my passthru.php file like this.

 <?php

if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
function file_get_contents($url) {
$handle = fopen($url, 'r');
$string = fread($handle, 4096000);
fclose($handle);
return $string;
}
}



include ('ad_network_216.php');
echo preg_replace ("/<\/body>/i", $ad_network . '</body>', file_get_contents(str_replace ('../', '', 

$_REQUEST['file'])));

include ("randomquote.php");

?>

Code (markup):

This outputs the quote right below the co-op ads.

I would like to see them just above the co-op ads.

Putting the include ("randomquote.php"); before the ad network include shoots the quote to the top of the page.

Question is: How do I tell passthru.php where to put it?

Or alternatively: How can I make SSI work in this setup?

 

So if I want it to walk like the co-op script it has to talk like it.

I was hoping I could B.S. my way through it since I'm still a cut and paste hack when it comes to PHP.

Here is the basic random quote file.

I'm searching for how to "drop this into a variable", but I'm afraid I might learn something.

 

$x = file_get_contents("randomquote.php");

Code (markup):

include it before the preg_replace line and spit out the variable within the preg_replace line.

 

Thanks. I've made a few hundred guesses at what "it" is and how to spit out a variable. Haven't figured it out yet and the room is covered in saliva. Maybe I should dry off one of those php books...