Implode...

[Lee-Bartlett]

Where am i going wrong?

 

  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="20" colspan="2" bgcolor="#0099FF"><?php $footer = implode("", file("includes/footer.php"));
    
   echo $footer;
   ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

 

The file is includes then its called footer.php anyone?

[Andy-H]

implode is a function used on an array data-type. not a file...

 

http://php.net/implode

[rhodesa]

well...what is it doing (or not doing) and how does that differ from what you expect?

 

Your code will read all the lines from footer.php and output them. No PHP code will be processed. If you want the PHP code to be processed, try this:

 

  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="20" colspan="2" bgcolor="#0099FF"><?php include("includes/footer.php"); ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

[rhodesa]

implode is a function used on an array data-type. not a file...

 

http://php.net/implode

 

file() returns an array...

[Lee-Bartlett]

Oh sorry, its not showing anything in the bottom table. My uncle sites uses it for code wrapping round templates, he told me to look at smarty templates to, but this is bit of his code he uses.

 

$sql = "select * from member where id='$ID'";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
$cnt = mysql_num_rows($res);
$data = @MYSQL_FETCH_ARRAY($res);

$page1 = implode("", file("../templ/members/header.htt"));
$page2 = implode("", file("../templ/footer.htt"));
$pagads = implode("", file("../templ/ads.htt"));

[Andy-H]

so it does lol

[rhodesa]

what is the contents of "includes/footer.php"?

[Lee-Bartlett]

just text, 2008 copy righted, to test it, nothing else

[rhodesa]

then both the code you posted and the code i posted should work. if you do a View Source on the page do you see the text? If so, then you have an HTML/CSS issue

[Lee-Bartlett]

Yours is an include file though, i no you can use includes here but i was told to use implodes. Somthing to do with code wrapping round templates.

[Lee-Bartlett]

This is all the php code in my uncles file, he wants me to replicate this, but on a more basic level.

 

session_start();
$UID = $_SESSION['UID'];
//$propid = $id;

if(!$UID)
   {
   $page = implode("", file("../templ/error.htt"));
   if($rdr1 == 1)
      $page = ereg_replace('ddd.com', "dd.com", $page);
   $msg = "Please <a href=\"login.php\">Login Here</a><br><br>";
   $msg .= 'Not a member yet? <a href="register.php">Register</a> in 30 seconds and list your property!';
   $page = ereg_replace('{MESSAGE}', $msg, $page);
   echo $page;
   exit();
   }

$sql = "select * from member where id='$UID'";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
$cnt = mysql_num_rows($res);
$data = @MYSQL_FETCH_ARRAY($res);

$page1 = implode("", file("../templ/members/header.htt"));
$page2 = implode("", file("../templ/footer.htt"));
$pagads = implode("", file("../templ/ads.htt"));

$title = "Rentals: Edit profile";
$page1 = ereg_replace('{TITLE}', $title, $page1);
$ADM = $_SESSION['ADMIN'];
if($ADM == "yes")
   {
   $page1 = ereg_replace('{ADS}', "<p>", $page1);
   $page1 = preg_replace("/<!-- ADMIN(.*?)-->/s", "$1", $page1);
   }
else
   $page1 = ereg_replace('{ADS}', $pagads, $page1);
if($rdr1 == 1)
  $page1 = ereg_replace('ddd.com', "dd.com", $page1);

$page1 = preg_replace("/<!-- PROPERTY -->(.*?)<!-- PROPERTY2 -->/s", "", $page1);
$page1 = preg_replace("/<!-- 3 -->(.*?)<!-- 3 -->/", "", $page1);
echo $page1;

[wildteen88]

i've never seen the use of implode/file as a better way of including a files contents before.

 

Personally I use include/require etc to include PHP code within my pages, anything else I'd use file_get_contents.

[rhodesa]

i can understand the use of file/implode for the sole reason the poster described:

Oh sorry, its not showing anything in the bottom table. My uncle sites uses it for code wrapping round templates, he told me to look at smarty templates to, but this is bit of his code he uses.

that way you can have your templates more readable with new lines, but when they are loaded, the new lines are stripped out.

[wildteen88]

I just don't think its a very efficient way of doing things. Especially if you leave the first parameter of the implode function blank.

[Lee-Bartlett]

So the code above, the long pieces about 10th post, could be better done by using require or includes?