INCLUDE() with paramters

[Cenron]

Anyone know of a good way of passing a parameter to one of my php files while I am including it

 

so for example I want to do this

 

include("display.php?p=3");

 

That doesn't end up working for me and I know why,because it uses the system file directory and doesn't run it through the PHP engine yet, in any cause I though of doing it this way but I want to see if there was a better way.

 

My idea was do it this way

 

 

index.php

$parameter = $_GET["p"];
include(display.php);

 

 

display.php

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `display` WHERE `display_id` = '$parameter' ");
echo "$query";

 

 

I know there is more to the code above but this was how I was thinking about doing it.

 

any suggestions on doing this a better way?

[trq]

If you have url wrappers enabled you can achieve this by including via the full url. eg;

 

include "http://yourdomain.com/display.php?p=3";

 

[Cenron]

I thought of that but it seems like on a big scale that would increase the amount of traffic generated from the site.

[trq]

Well, that the only other option. It works a little differently to a normal include anyway in that you don't inherit the functions and vars included, just the output.