ways of passing data to included page

[topcoder1]

I know there are two ways to pass arguments to an included page.

1. declare variable in the main page, and the included page will have access to this variable by default scope.

in main.php

$test="hi";

<?php include("include1.php");?>

 

 

2. pass the argument from get

in main.php

<?php include("include1.php?test=hi");?>

 

the second way doesn't pollute the namespace but is limited to pass simple arguments(not arbitrary objects).  Is there any other way?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Method 2 does not work when including a local file. You would need to set the $_GET variable before the include() if you wanted the code to receive the variable -

 

$_GET['test'] ="hi";
include("include1.php");