echoing a php string with a wordpress include

Question

hey. with the following code

<?php
if (qtrans_getLanguage() == "en") {
   echo <?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_en.php' ); ?>;

}else{
      echo <?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_de.php' ); ?>;
   }
?>

i'm trying to include a file, based on the chosen language of the website. guess my idea is right but i'm totaly wrong on the syntax of using include in an echo..

can someone please oint me in the right direction?

many thanks,

tobi.

Answer 1

You are already in PHP mode, so you don't need to re-open the PHP tags (<?php). Remove them, and it should work. You don't even need the echo, since PHP drops out of PHP mode and back in HTML mode when it includes a file.

<?php
if (qtrans_getLanguage() == "en") {
   include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_en.php' );

} else {
   include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_de.php' );
}
?>

Answer 2

You can't echo an include. Try just including the file, otherwise you can try the get_file_contents function, which returns the file as a string.

echo get_file_contents( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_de.php');

More info on get_file_contents: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php