[chesman]

i have come across this one in my research, and i was just wondering how it logiclly works.

So you setup a page with tables or frames and just put that tag in there to call another html or php page?

can anyone give me some sort of example? because well, you can't view the sorce of pages with this going since it only shows you what it is in html.

:/

thanks!

[BlazingWolf]

Viewing the source will always only give you the raw HTML after any PHP, ASP, or any other code has been executed.

The include works just as one would think it does. It includes another php page wherever you put the include call in the page.

EX: http://dojo.motionless-continuum.com/ All the stuff in the lower right hand box, and the news, and other content is all being include from other files. When you press a different button it includes a different page in that box.

The actual code just goes like this(granted this code would not work)

<mytable>

<myrow>
blah
</myrow>
<myotherrow>
<?php include('myotherpage.php');
</otherrow>
</mytable>

The Inlcuded page would show up in the second row of the table.

[Vormund]

Yeah, what he said

And it does not have to be just a .php extension--it can be virtually any, but yeah--PHP, TXT, HTML etc. are the most frequently used (probably in that order). There are also three other closely related terms:
include_once - will only include it if it has not been previously included in the document
require - the page/script will literally die if the page to be "included" is not there
require_once - will oly include it if it has not been previously included in the document AND it exists -- else as require, it will die.

PHP.net about the include function:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

a simple example:

item.php
<?php
$fruit = "apple";
?>

show.php
<?php
include "item.php";
echo $fruit;
?>

Running "show.php" would output simply output:
Apple

Basically reiterated what he just said, but yeah, I'm bored: )