not even sure this is possible with a file_get_contents

[sandbudd]

What I am trying to do is pull the content of another page which works fine and then do echo statements.  It does display the content of the page but not the echo statements.

 

outside page

 

lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum <?php echo $stateinsert ?> lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum <?php echo $cityinsert ?> <?php echo $stateinsert ?> lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum  <?php echo $countyinsert ?> Lorum Ipsom Lorum Ipsom Lorum Ipsom </p>

 

<?php 
$cityinsert = "Auburn";
$stateinsert = "Alabama";
$countyinsert = "Jefferson";
$table = "auburnAL"; 

?>
<?php
$d = file_get_contents("http://mysite.com/includes/leftcopy.php");
echo ($d);
?>

 

It displays the lorem ipsum  but won't display the echo statements.

[sandbudd]

should mention that the it is pulling from another website

[btherl]

Those echo statements will be executed on the external page, not in your script.  So all the echoed variables are blank when the echo executes.

 

Instead you might want to make them placeholders like "%STATEINSERT%" and do a str_replace() on $d after file_get_contents().

[sandbudd]

btherl could you give me an example please.

[btherl]

$d = str_replace("%STATEINSERT%", $stateinsert, $d);

 

And then in your external html you would use %STATEINSERT% instead of <?php echo $stateinsert; ?>

[sandbudd]

btherl that worked perfect if you have time could you explain to me why that worked and what exactly I did so I know in the future?  And thank you so much for you help!

[jcbones]

It is quite simple, the PHP script you are calling resides on a different server.  When you call a file using 'file_get_contents()', and you specify the file path with 'http://', the file gets parsed by the server BEFORE delivery of the contents.  He had you to place 'placeholders' in your script where you wanted the data to show.  Placeholders are unique string patterns that isn't normally used in a page layout.  You can make them anything you want, but they must be unique.

 

He then had you to do a simple string_replace function to find you placeholders, and replace them with your desired variables.

[btherl]

jcbones explained it well.  If both scripts are on the same server you could consider using sessions or include() instead of file_get_contents().  Sessions allow you to share data between scripts, and include() will allow leftcopy.php to access the variables you have set in your script.  The reason is that include() runs in the same copy of php, but file_get_contents() starts a new copy of php to run leftcopy.php in, and it doesn't know about the variables you set.

[sandbudd]

Hey everyone thanks for the help but I need to know how to continue the echo statement... this is what I tried but does not work.

 

<?php 
$cityinsert = "Auburn";
$stateinsert = "Alabama";
$countyinsert = "Jefferson";
$table = "auburnAL"; 

?>
<?
$d = file_get_contents("http://mysite/includes/leftcopy.php");
echo $d = str_replace("%STATEINSERT%", $stateinsert, $d);
echo $d = str_replace("%CITYINSERT%", $cityinsert, $d);
?>

[sandbudd]

Tried this with no luck

 

<?php
$d = file_get_contents("http://restaurantsanddiners.com/includes/leftcopy.php");
echo $d = str_replace("%STATEINSERT%", $stateinsert, $d);
echo $d .= str_replace("%CITYINSERT%", $cityinsert, $d);
?>

[sandbudd]

any help guys I have tried several combinations and can't it to work.

[btherl]

It should look like this:

 

$d = str_replace("%STATEINSERT%", $stateinsert, $d);
$d = str_replace("%CITYINSERT%", $cityinsert, $d);
echo $d;

 

You can add as many of the str_replace() lines as you want.

[sandbudd]

I tried that but it didn't work, tried again and it did...thanks for the help must of missed typed something