Basic Include Problem

[Smith]

First of all I must apologise for the pathetic simplicity of my problem, I am not accustomed to using php or html other than for very basic purposes.

 

I wish to use the following in a simple web page:

 

<php include( $page ".txt") >

 

I have tried different minor variations of it but unfortunately I continue to recieve the following message:

 

"Notice: Undefined variable: page in /home/fhlinux172/f/fmpocketguide.co.uk/user/htdocs/index.php on line 97

 

Warning: include(.txt) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/fhlinux172/f/fmpocketguide.co.uk/user/htdocs/index.php on line 97

 

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear-php5') in /home/fhlinux172/f/fmpocketguide.co.uk/user/htdocs/index.php on line 97"

 

I'm sure there will be a glaring error with the little bit of code or some other simple explanation, sadly I just don't know 

 

 

[ted_chou12]

put your txt file and this php file in the same directory; code:

<?php include("$page.txt"); ?>

Ted

[mjlogan]

<?php include( $page.".txt"); ?>

 

and the error says that $page isnt defined anywhere, so it wont know what page to load and will fail.

[Smith]

Yep, unfortunately still no luck. As you may have guessed, I have no idea how to define $page in order for this to work properly.

[ted_chou12]

what is the name of your text file?

[Smith]

home.txt

[mjlogan]

<?php 

$page = "home";

include( $page.".txt"); 

?>

[ted_chou12]

if that is so:

<?php include("home.txt"); ?>

isnt this much simpler?

Ted

[mjlogan]

it is but i was demonstrating assigning variables.

[Smith]

Thank you for your help. I was hoping however to be able to point to various files, not just home.txt e.g. news.txt, about.txt etc.

[ted_chou12]

yeah, in that case, follow mjlogan's previous post.

[Smith]

I did use mjlogan's code, but upon attempting to view /index.php?page=test I still only see that home.txt file. I appreciate that this is because $page has now been defined as "home", I just don't know how to alter the code to make it do what I want.

 

I do apologise for my complete lack of understanding here

[ted_chou12]

<?php $page = $_GET['page'];
include("$page.txt"); ?>

Ted

[Smith]

That's perfect. Thank you all very much for your help. 

[Smith]

Sorry for the double post, but how would I assign a default page into this code so that when viewing index.php, a specific .txt file is displayed?

[mjlogan]

<?php 

if (isset($_GET['page'])){
$page = $_GET['page'];
} else {
$page = "index";
}

include("$page.txt"); 

?>

 

or slightly more advanced.

 

if (!isset($_GET['page'])){
$page =  "index";
}elseif (preg_match ("/[^A-z]/", $_GET['page']) || !file_exists("" .$_GET['page']. ".txt")){
$page = "error";						
} else {
$page = $_GET['page'];
}

[Smith]

Thanks again