return as specific location

[hackalive]

Hi guys so I have a PHP page with a function, now this function calls a HTML page and should return the contents to th exact spot where the cuntion is called, but it is returning it to the start of the document, any ideas how to fix this? (no iFrame suggestions please).

 

$A = str_replace('<A>', require_once($dir.'/'.$file), $A);
return $A;

is the contents of the function, and this does call the right file, just how do I get it to return in a specific location?

[ignace]

Functions like require_once(), include_once(), require(), and include() return 0 or 1 you need to return() it if you want to use it.

 

$A = str_replace('<A>', 1, $A); is what you wrote (if the include was successful 0 otherwise).

[Tazerenix]

if you want to get the contents of the HTML page then use

<?php
$page = file_get_contents($dir . '/' . $file);
$A = str_replace('<A>', $page, $A);
return $A;
?>

Is that what you wanted to do?

 

if you also want to write back to the html page then use file_put_contents()

[hackalive]

but there is also PHP echoing on the HTML page so I dont think get_file_contents will work?

 

any more ideas?

 

Thanks ignace and Tazerenix

[hackalive]

Tazerenix I have just tried you suggestion and it does'nt handle the PHP

[Tazerenix]

mm, i didnt think it would parse PHP. It might parse it from absolute URL's (like calling http://google.com or something) so you might try that. Otherwise i'm not entirely sure how you would do it. Is the PHP inside that file 100% needed?

 

EDIT:

Hmm, i was looking at file_get_contents and i found this little cURL function. You might also like to try it:

<?php
function curl_get_file_contents($URL)
    {
        $c = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
        $contents = curl_exec($c);
        curl_close($c);

        if ($contents) return $contents;
            else return FALSE;
    }
?>

[hackalive]

@ignace, yes it is returning a 1

 

@Tazerenix, yes that PHP needs to be there, I need to achive this somehow with the filr structure I have going

 

So if anyone can think of a way to achive this let me know please, thanks in advance

[Tazerenix]

as i said you might want to try that curl function. Also try calling from an absolute address:

<?php
$page = file_get_contents('http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $dir . '/' . $file);
?>

[ignace]

ob_start();

include('filepath');

$content = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

[hackalive]

okay what you suggested ignace works except..... now all the themeting etc is gone (it has replace <PL1> with the file but all the surrounding stuff for <PL1> which should stay is also gone.

 

I have

ob_start();
$A = str_replace('<A>', require_once($dir.'/'.$file), $A);
$A = ob_get_contents();
return $A;

[Tazerenix]

<?php

ob_start();
include('filepath');
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$A = str_replace('<A>', $content, $A);
return $A;

?>

[hackalive]

Perfect, thanks so much ignace and Tazerenix, very very very much appreciated