Including a page w/ GET arguments

[IWP506@gmail.com]

Hi

I have a page that returns data based on the arguments provided to it
in the URL. I want to show these results embedded in another page.
Include('mypage .php?name=joe') fails with "failed to open stream:
Invalid argument". How can I do this?

Thanks

IWP506

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: Including a page w/ GET arguments

IWP506@gmail.co m wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I have a page that returns data based on the arguments provided to it
> in the URL. I want to show these results embedded in another page.
> Include('mypage .php?name=joe') fails with "failed to open stream:
> Invalid argument". How can I do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> IWP506
>[/color]

The file name is not 'mypage.php?nam e=joe', is it? That is, do you see
that in your directory listing?

When you use GET parameters, the web server strips them out before
fetching the file. include() does not such thing.

Include just copies the included file into the location in your existing
file, just as if you had cut and pasted it. So, if you have:

$name='joe';
include('mypage .php');

Within mypage. php you can just reference $name and get 'joe'.

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[Andy Jeffries]

Re: Including a page w/ GET arguments

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:23:40 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:[color=blue]
> The file name is not 'mypage.php?nam e=joe', is it? That is, do you see
> that in your directory listing?
>
> When you use GET parameters, the web server strips them out before
> fetching the file. include() does not such thing.
>
> Include just copies the included file into the location in your existing
> file, just as if you had cut and pasted it. So, if you have:
>
> $name='joe';
> include('mypage .php');
>
> Within mypage. php you can just reference $name and get 'joe'.[/color]

You're probably better off adding name to $_GET so the same code
can work regardless of which way mypage.php is being called (on it's own
or through this page).

$_GET['name'] = 'joe';
include('mypage .php');

Or (just for completeness, it's slower) you could do:

include("http://myhostname/mypage.php?name =joe");

(this involves apache so would register an extra hit on your site and be
slower as it would involve a separate PHP instance).

Cheers,


Andy


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[Chuck Anderson]

Re: Including a page w/ GET arguments

IWP506@gmail.co m wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi
>
>I have a page that returns data based on the arguments provided to it
>in the URL. I want to show these results embedded in another page.
>Include('mypag e.php?name=joe' ) fails with "failed to open stream:
>Invalid argument". How can I do this?
>
>Thanks
>
>IWP506
>
>
>[/color]
As has been said, you simply do not need add the variable. It is already
in the local environment and the include file can access it directly.

Read the first note (and example) here about variable scope:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php

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