php noob problem - require_once

[Guest donnie]

Hi, im doing a simple site and im pretty much total noob in PHP, just learning it so sorry

[code]
<div class="next">
<?php @ require_once ("next.html"); ?>
</div>
<div class="navi">
<?php @ require_once ("navi.php"); ?>
</div>

<div class="cont">
<?php @ require_once ('./$page.html'); ?>
</div>[/code]

So thats the code and what i want to do is that the menu (where all the links are) are in navi.php file. And when you click one of those links the page opens in "cont" box. But for some reason that doesnt work. Where's the problem. Im not sure but should i have somewhere something like $_GET

thanks,
donnie

[wildteen88]

You'll probably want to use $_GET['page'] rather than $page like so:
<div class="cont">
<?php @ require_once './' . $_GET['page'] . '.html' ?>
</div>

[Guest donnie]

Ah thats it. Thanks alot :)