Add name.php to include

[grucker]

 include ("../../../../../accounts/accounts/LINEAR LTD/PERIODIC/listofpdfs.php");

 

I have the above line of code and would like the company name, in this instance, LINEAR LTD,
to be replaced with file, name.php which contains the words LINEAR LTD.

 

It will save an enormous ammount of work as new clients are added.

 

 

[doddsey_65]

Sounds like a good idea. Was there a question?

[denno020]

I suppose you could store the company names in a text file instead, each name on a new line. Then read in that text file into an array using the php function file(). Then you can loop through the variable that you assigned that to, and include all the files. I think that would work..

$names = file("names.txt");
foreach ($names as $name) {
    include "../".$name."/rest/of/path"; //Put your correct amount of ../ here
}

Edited February 2, 2014 by denno020

[.josh]

One way:

 

name.php is a php file that sets a variable to be used on main.php

 

name.php

 

<?php
$name = 'LINEAR LTD';
?>

main.php

include("name.php");
include ("../../../../../accounts/accounts/{$name}/PERIODIC/listofpdfs.php");

Another way:

 

name.php is really just a text file with the name, and main.php retrieves its contents into a string

 

name.php

 

LINEAR LTD

main.php

$name = trim(file_get_contents('name.php'));
include ("../../../../../accounts/accounts/{$name}/PERIODIC/listofpdfs.php");

[grucker]

Thank you, both suggestions work perfectly well. I used the second method.