Using include() with variables

[itsjareds]

How do you set a variable to what is in a php file?

 

I have a list of numbers that will be put into an array. One file, which has the list of numbers, will be changed often.

 

numbers.php

123.4.567.890, 098.7.654.321

 

myscript.php

<?php 

$ips = <?php include("numbers.php") ?>;

$banned = Array();
$banned[] = $ips;
      
if (in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $banned))
  { 
  exit("<center><h2>You are banned from this board.</h2></center>");
  }

?>

[Jabop]

Read the file contents, explode the contents by comma.

[wildteen88]

include doesn't return a value. You should use fopen/fread or file_get_contents to store the contants of a file into a variable