Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Including Other Files

Including Other Files

Unless you are restricting yourself to the simplest programming ventures, you will want to share code among your scripts at some point. The most basic need for this is to have a standard header and footer for your website, with only the body content changing. However, you might also find yourself with a small set of custom functions you use frequently, and it would be an incredibly bad move to simply copy and paste the functions into each of the scripts that use them.

The most common way to include other files is with the include keyword. Save this script as include1.php:

<?php
 for($i = 10; $i >= 0; $i -= 1) {
  include "echo_i.php";
 }
?>

Then save this script as echo_i.php:

<?php
 echo $i;
?>

If you run include1.php, PHP loops from 10 to 0 and includes echo_i.php each time. For its part, echo_i.php just prints the value of $i, which is a crazy way of performing an otherwise simple operation, but it does demonstrate how included files share data. Note that the include keyword in include1.php is inside a PHP block, but PHP is reopened inside echo_i.php. This is important because PHP exits PHP mode for each new file, so you always have a consistent entry point.

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