For your things (where you are including HTML), readfile just reads a file
and dumps it to the screen. This is fine, because you are just dealing with
HTML, so no processing is required. include will actually try and parse the
file as if it has PHP inside somewhere, which your HTML (probably) doesnt.
So, readfile uses less resources, and is much more like the SSI include
statement than PHP's include :)
adamw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Zornek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Adam Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] include statement
> Adam(and everyone else who answers in 5 minutes, god i love this list),
>
> thanks for the help.
>
> Why is readfile more 'correct'?
>
> Just wondering?
> Mike
>
> At 5:07 PM +0000 1/17/01, Adam Wright wrote:
> >This is because the PHP include statement is ment to include other blocks
of
> >PHP code, rather than bits of HTML. Hence, it includes things from
anywhere
> >on the system. To include things from under your current htdocs
directory,
> >use...
> >
> >include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/includes/metatags.include");
> >
> >though the more 'correct' method would be
> >
> >readfile($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/includes/metatags.include");
> >
> >adamw
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Michael Zornek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:04 PM
> >Subject: [PHP] include statement
> >
> >
> >> I'm a PHP newbie and am looking into using the include statement to
> >> put things like the header and footer in so they are always the same.
> >>
> >> I do this now with SSI. In SSI I'll use the following statement:
> >>
> >> <!--#include virtual="/includes/metatags.include" -->
> >>
> >> I like this cause it lets me use the same statement all over the site
> >> and I don't have to worry about where the document is and how many
> >> directories i have to go up an into "../../../../../"
> >>
> >> I was guessing PHP's version would be:
> >>
> >> <?PHP
> >> include("/includes/metatags.include");
> >> ?>
> >>
> >> However I get an error. If I put the absolute it works:
> >>
> >> <?PHP
> >> include("/home/httpd/includes/metatags.include");
> >> ?>
> >>
> >> which is scary cause this worked too:
> >>
> >> <?PHP
> >> include("/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf");
> >> ?>
> >>
> >> doesn't this seem like a huge security hole?
> >>
> >> Well what I want is to use something like /inc/footer.html so i can
> >> use the same PHP statements in any document and not worry about
> >> getting it "../../../"
> >>
> >> Any suggestions.
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
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