PHP help - including variables from separate file

**Doctor Feelgood**

IceNine and others... Need some help, which is probably simple.

Say I have a PHP file that includes several html files to create the content. But, of those several files, I want one variable from one of the html files to be extracted by the PHP file and used as the php pages title.

Do you know what I mean?

like taking variable "$title" from file a and making it understood and usable in file b.

Thanks.

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:08:45 Post Subject:

You mean if you had in "example.html":

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:32:17 Post Subject:

yes.

I would like another file to share that $title = "monkey; by some kind of reference from one file to the other.

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:37:29 Post Subject:

I guess I'm sort of confused (sorry). Could you give me a real world example? You could email it to me if neccessary.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:44:39 Post Subject:

I don't have anything to e-mail you really... just trying to figure this out.

But basically say:

example.html has
$title = 'monkey';

I want index.php (for example) to be able to reference example.html so when I <?php echo $title; ?> in index.php, it knows that it is "monkey"!

Grin

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:03:23 Post Subject:

Do you include "example.html" before you echo the title? You could do it a couple ways:

preg_match() it, finding a special tag - not $title = 'monkey' but something like <title>monkey</title>

Or you could change example.html into example.php and in one small spot, just to <?$title = 'monkey'; ?> and the variable would be set.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:15:52 Post Subject:

I was trying include or require, and it would echo the $title properly, but it would also output the whole 'example'html' page too. Did I include wrong?

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:18:16 Post Subject:

When you include something like that, it will output all HTML as well. If you're just trying to extract the title, you'll have to do a file_get_contents instead of an include. But then you'll have to use preg_match.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:34:37 Post Subject:

OK... have a basic example of the use of preg match?

thanks man!

Smile

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:39:16 Post Subject: