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Using variables before include()ing them

Answer 1

+2 A:

Most people store the output of the included page into another variable. Have you tried putting all the content of the included page into the output buffer, then storing the ob_get_clean() into a variable like $page_html, then having your page look like this:

<?php include($_GET['page']); ?>
<html>
  <head>
    <title><?php echo $page_title; ?></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <?php echo $page_html; ?>
  </body>
</html>

Edit: So the second page would look something like this:

<?php
$page_title="My Title";
ob_start();
?>
<h1>Hello world!</h1>
<?php $page_html=ob_get_clean(); ?>

animuson 2010-05-14 17:28:06

Answer 2

+1 A:

The best thing I can think of would be to separate the inclusion of the file from the rendering. So your template looks like this:

<?php include($_GET['page']); ?>
<html>
  <head>
    <title><?php echo $page_title; ?></title>
  </head>
  <body>
     <?php renderPage() ?>
  </body>
</html>

And the file you are including looks like this:

<?php
$page_title="My Title";
function renderPage() {
?>
<h1>Hello world!</h1>
<?php 
}
?>

This is also nice since you can pass parameters to renderPage() so that the template can pass info along to the page it is including.

Eric Petroelje 2010-05-14 17:30:34

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