John Allsopp wrote:
> David Robley wrote:
>> John Allsopp wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> At the top of a webpage I have:
>>>
>>> <?php
>>> include_once("furniture.php");
>>> $myFurniture = new furniture();
>>> echo $myFurniture->getTop("my company title");
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> to deliver the first lines of HTML, everything in HEAD and the first
>>> bits of page furniture (menu, etc).
>>>
>>> In the furniture object in getTop(), I want to return a string that
>>> includes the CSS file that I call with an include_once. But the
>>> include_once isn't interpreted by PHP, it's just outputted. So from:
>>>
>>> $toReturn = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
>>> Transitional//EN' ........
>>> <?php
>>> include_once('styles3.txt');
>>> ?>
>>> .......";
>>>
>>> return $toReturn;
>>>
>>> I get
>>>
>>> <?php
>>> include_once('styles3.txt');
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> in my code.
>>>
>>> Do I really have to break up my echo $myFurniture->getTop("my company
>>> title"); call to getTopTop, then include my CSS, then call getTopBottom,
>>> or can I get PHP to interpret that text that came back?
>>>
>>> PS. I may be stupid, this may be obvious .. I don't program PHP every
>>> day
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> J
>>>
>>
>> First guess is that your page doing the including doesn't have a filename
>> with a .php extension, and your server is set to only parse php in files
>> with a .php extension.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> Ah, thanks. It's a PHP object returning a string, I guess the PHP
> interpreter won't see that.
>
> So, maybe my object has to write a file that my calling file then
> includes after the object function call. Doesn't sound too elegant, but
> is that how it's gotta be?
>
> Cheers
> J
I think I misunderstood your explanation :-) Can you show the actual content
of furniture.php? I wonder if there are missing <?php ?> tags??
Cheers
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