Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey


OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script in as 
an ssi include, will it still work? The functionality would also be 
useful on a page besides the default landing page, such as a 
404error.html page, or a thank you page.


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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey
A good point, but in this application there WILL be AT LEAST 1 
legitimate directory at all times, or else the script would not be used, 
so this ought not be a problem.


My problem is that I understand the basic functions to implement, but 
have not yet aquired sufficient command of php to implement the required 
multi step algorithm.


Jim Lucas wrote:

On 11/26/2010 4:03 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote:
  

Hello all, my name is Kirk Bailey, and I am new to php, so please be forbearing.
I code in python, and am trying to learn this language as our new client runs a
web business based in it.

I need a routine that will return a list of every directory immediately under
the current directory- but nothing else, just a list of directories, 1 level
deep, NO FILES, no listing of current dir or prior dir either.

Now in python, I would use os.walk, and use the list of dirs and throw the other
2 lists away, but this ain't Kansas anymore. Does php even DO lists?

Um, a list is a 1 dimenional array, if have a list ALIST and you plug in 3, you
get back the contents of cell 3 in the list, whaqtever that content is. so if
cell 3 in a 6 celled list was "Ruby" then ALIST[3] would return the string 
"ruby".

It's easy to iterate lists. For instance:

   print ''
   for dir in ALIST:
   print '",dir,'
   print '

This would let me produce an ordered list of directories, each a link to that
directory.
This way, when a client installs a new product, the home page area listing
products offered automatically updates.

Further embellishment would let me replace the dir name with a BRIEF description
from a descriptor file read from that dir. Now how to do this in php?




This should do.

The only problem that I foresee would be an empty "" if you have no
directories returned by glob().

print('');
foreach ( glob('./*', GLOB_ONLYDIR) AS $dir )
  print(''.$dir.'');
print('');


Jim Lucas

  


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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey
Now Now, fight nice. We don need no stinkin' @$^*$^(! woids here.  :-P 


Steve Staples wrote:

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:07 -0500, Daniel P. Brown wrote:
  

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 23:13, Kirk Bailey  wrote:
[snip!]


Can this be improved to exclude anything with a '.' or a '-' in it's name?
This will exclude the smileys and cgi-bin and such. If it can be persuaded
to read a 1 line description from each subdirectory it could then use THAT
as the text in the link, instead of the name. This could be useful in many
settings.
  

Sure.  Change:

if (is_dir($d) && $d != '.' && $d != '..') {

To:

if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/[\.\-]/',$d)) {

Keep in mind, though, that the change will no longer show anything
that matches the below either:

example.directory
example-directory
special-images
css.files

In other words, you may instead want to explicitly state which
directories to omit, and then drop anything that begins with a dot as
well (hidden directories on *NIX-like boxes) like so:

'.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
  }
}
?>

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damn you Daniel... I was just about to reply with almost the EXACT same
answer!!!

I think the last example would probably be the best one to use, that way
you can still have some directories with the . or - or even the _ in the
names, and still be able to display them.

Steve

ps thanks for saving me type it all out Daniel :)


  


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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey

my current code is as follows:

   *
   '.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
 }
   }
   ?>
   *

The page containing this is at this url:
   http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php
I believe this will be a starting point for the functionality I am 
looking for- an automatic menu of areas in a website one may go to. By 
excluding some folders, people don't go trespassing into the cgi-bin or 
images folder, or into areas reserved for administrative uses.



Daniel P. Brown wrote:

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 23:13, Kirk Bailey  wrote:
[snip!]
  

Can this be improved to exclude anything with a '.' or a '-' in it's name?
This will exclude the smileys and cgi-bin and such. If it can be persuaded
to read a 1 line description from each subdirectory it could then use THAT
as the text in the link, instead of the name. This could be useful in many
settings.



Sure.  Change:

if (is_dir($d) && $d != '.' && $d != '..') {

To:

if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/[\.\-]/',$d)) {

Keep in mind, though, that the change will no longer show anything
that matches the below either:

example.directory
example-directory
special-images
css.files

In other words, you may instead want to explicitly state which
directories to omit, and then drop anything that begins with a dot as
well (hidden directories on *NIX-like boxes) like so:

'.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
  }
}
?>

  


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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Matt Graham
From: Kirk Bailey 
> OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
> in as an ssi include, will it still work?

If you're using Apache, and you do



...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or $_SESSION or any
of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do



...then something.php will be able to see and work with the superglobals that
have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what you want.  You
could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.  I'll use SSI
for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of code, because
IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.

Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.

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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey

Ok, let's kick this around.

iterating an array(?; 1 dimensional listing of things) in php, I am 
creating a list of direcoties. I want to open and read in a file in each 
directory with a standard name, which contains a 1 line description of 
the directory and it's purpose.


Now, here's the existing code; this code is online NOW at this url:
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php

   * 1   which are  
2NOT to be listed!

3$excludes[] = 'images';
4$excludes[] = 'cgi-bin';
5$excludes[] = 'vti_cnf';
6$excludes[] = 'private';
7$excludes[] = 'thumbnail';
8
9$ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__));
   10foreach ($ls as $d) {
   11if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) &&
   12!in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {
   13 echo ''.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
   14 }
   15}
   16?>*

Let's say the file to read in /elite is named 'desc.txt'.
It looks like you want me to modify line 13 to say:
echo ''.include($d.'desc.txt').''.PHP_EOL;

so, if the file '/elite/desc.txt' contains the line

   *82nd Airbourne - We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers
   *

Then that element in the list would appear as:

   * 82nd Airbourne  -We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers

And would be clickable. Let's try it and see if this hound hunts.

Matt Graham wrote:

From: Kirk Bailey 
  

OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
in as an ssi include, will it still work?



If you're using Apache, and you do



...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or $_SESSION or any
of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do



...then something.php will be able to see and work with the superglobals that
have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what you want.  You
could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.  I'll use SSI
for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of code, because
IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.

Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.

  


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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey
The hound barks, but does not yet properly hunt, and we need to bring 
home the bacon.


OK, here is the current code:

   '.include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt')
   ;#.''.PHP_EOL;
 }
   }
   ?>

the url again, to view the results, is 
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php and is live right now. The 
results are a tad odd to say the least.





Kirk Bailey wrote:

Ok, let's kick this around.

iterating an array(?; 1 dimensional listing of things) in php, I am 
creating a list of direcoties. I want to open and read in a file in 
each directory with a standard name, which contains a 1 line 
description of the directory and it's purpose.


Now, here's the existing code; this code is online NOW at this url:
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php

   * 1'.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
   14 }
   15}
   16?>*

Let's say the file to read in /elite is named 'desc.txt'.
It looks like you want me to modify line 13 to say:
echo ''.include($d.'desc.txt').''.PHP_EOL;

so, if the file '/elite/desc.txt' contains the line

   *82nd Airbourne - We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers
   *

Then that element in the list would appear as:

   * 82nd Airbourne  -We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers

And would be clickable. Let's try it and see if this hound hunts.

Matt Graham wrote:

From: Kirk Bailey 
 

OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
in as an ssi include, will it still work?



If you're using Apache, and you do



...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or 
$_SESSION or any

of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do



...then something.php will be able to see and work with the 
superglobals that
have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what you 
want.  You
could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.  I'll 
use SSI
for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of code, 
because

IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.

Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.

  




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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Tamara Temple


On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote:

The hound barks, but does not yet properly hunt, and we need to  
bring home the bacon.


OK, here is the current code:

  '.include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt')
  ;#.''.PHP_EOL;
}
  }
  ?>

the url again, to view the results, is http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php 
 and is live right now. The results are a tad odd to say the least.




Ok, I don't think that's actually the code that generated the page you  
link to, but let's go with what you've got.


First of all, include() does not return a string to the calling  
program. include() basically redirects the php interpretter to process  
the contents of the file. What include() returns is success or failure  
of the execution of the included script. To use the current setup you  
have with the desc.txt files, you want to do something like this:


echo '';
include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt');
echo ''.PHP_EOL;

If the file desc.txt contains only text, it will get sent to the  
browser as is.







Kirk Bailey wrote:

Ok, let's kick this around.

iterating an array(?; 1 dimensional listing of things) in php, I am  
creating a list of direcoties. I want to open and read in a file in  
each directory with a standard name, which contains a 1 line  
description of the directory and it's purpose.


Now, here's the existing code; this code is online NOW at this url:
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php

  * 1'.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
  14 }
  15}
  16?>*

Let's say the file to read in /elite is named 'desc.txt'.
It looks like you want me to modify line 13 to say:
echo ''.include($d.'desc.txt').'>'.PHP_EOL;


so, if the file '/elite/desc.txt' contains the line

  *82nd Airbourne - We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers
  *

Then that element in the list would appear as:

  * 82nd Airbourne  -We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers

And would be clickable. Let's try it and see if this hound hunts.

Matt Graham wrote:

From: Kirk Bailey 


OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
in as an ssi include, will it still work?



If you're using Apache, and you do



...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or  
$_SESSION or any

of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do



...then something.php will be able to see and work with the  
superglobals that
have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what you  
want.  You
could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.   
I'll use SSI
for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of  
code, because

IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.

Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.






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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Kirk Bailey

the code is now:

   ';
 echo include($d.'/desc.txt' );
 echo ''.PHP_EOL;
 }
   }
   ?>

And it works!
   BUT!
Where is the "1" coming from?!?
Please inspect the page and see what I mean. This is not in the code, 
and it's not in the source file. Link: 
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php


I hope this dialog is proving at least mildly interesting to the 
remainder of the list as an educational exercise.



Tamara Temple wrote:


On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote:

The hound barks, but does not yet properly hunt, and we need to bring 
home the bacon.


OK, here is the current code:

  '.include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt')
  ;#.''.PHP_EOL;
}
  }
  ?>

the url again, to view the results, is 
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php and is live right now. The 
results are a tad odd to say the least.




Ok, I don't think that's actually the code that generated the page you 
link to, but let's go with what you've got.


First of all, include() does not return a string to the calling 
program. include() basically redirects the php interpretter to process 
the contents of the file. What include() returns is success or failure 
of the execution of the included script. To use the current setup you 
have with the desc.txt files, you want to do something like this:


echo '';
include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt');
echo ''.PHP_EOL;

If the file desc.txt contains only text, it will get sent to the 
browser as is.







Kirk Bailey wrote:

Ok, let's kick this around.

iterating an array(?; 1 dimensional listing of things) in php, I am 
creating a list of direcoties. I want to open and read in a file in 
each directory with a standard name, which contains a 1 line 
description of the directory and it's purpose.


Now, here's the existing code; this code is online NOW at this url:
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php

  * 1'.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
  14 }
  15}
  16?>*

Let's say the file to read in /elite is named 'desc.txt'.
It looks like you want me to modify line 13 to say:
echo 'href="'.$d.'">'.include($d.'desc.txt').''.PHP_EOL;


so, if the file '/elite/desc.txt' contains the line

  *82nd Airbourne - We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers
  *

Then that element in the list would appear as:

  * 82nd Airbourne  -We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers

And would be clickable. Let's try it and see if this hound hunts.

Matt Graham wrote:

From: Kirk Bailey 


OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
in as an ssi include, will it still work?



If you're using Apache, and you do



...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or 
$_SESSION or any

of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do



...then something.php will be able to see and work with the 
superglobals that
have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what you 
want.  You
could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.  I'll 
use SSI
for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of 
code, because

IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.

Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.






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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Richard Quadling
On 4 December 2010 20:58, Kirk Bailey  wrote:
> the code is now:
>
>      are NOT to be listed!
>   $excludes[] = 'images';
>   $excludes[] = 'cgi-bin';
>   $excludes[] = 'vti_cnf';
>   $excludes[] = 'private';
>   $excludes[] = 'thumbnail';
>
>   $ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__));
>   foreach ($ls as $d) {
>     if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) &&
>   !in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {
>         echo '';
>         echo include($d.'/desc.txt' );
>         echo ''.PHP_EOL;
>     }
>   }
>   ?>
>
> And it works!
>   BUT!
> Where is the "1" coming from?!?
> Please inspect the page and see what I mean. This is not in the code, and
> it's not in the source file. Link:
> http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php
>
> I hope this dialog is proving at least mildly interesting to the remainder
> of the list as an educational exercise.
>
>
> Tamara Temple wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> The hound barks, but does not yet properly hunt, and we need to bring
>>> home the bacon.
>>>
>>> OK, here is the current code:
>>>
>>>  >>  are NOT to be listed!
>>>  $excludes[] = 'images';
>>>  $excludes[] = 'cgi-bin';
>>>  $excludes[] = 'vti_cnf';
>>>  $excludes[] = 'private';
>>>  $excludes[] = 'thumbnail';
>>>
>>>  $ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__));
>>>  foreach ($ls as $d) {
>>>    if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) &&
>>>  !in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {
>>>        echo ''.include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt')
>>>  ;#.''.PHP_EOL;
>>>    }
>>>  }
>>>  ?>
>>>
>>> the url again, to view the results, is
>>> http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php and is live right now. The
>>> results are a tad odd to say the least.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, I don't think that's actually the code that generated the page you
>> link to, but let's go with what you've got.
>>
>> First of all, include() does not return a string to the calling program.
>> include() basically redirects the php interpretter to process the contents
>> of the file. What include() returns is success or failure of the execution
>> of the included script. To use the current setup you have with the desc.txt
>> files, you want to do something like this:
>>
>>    echo '';
>>    include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt');
>>    echo ''.PHP_EOL;
>>
>> If the file desc.txt contains only text, it will get sent to the browser
>> as is.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kirk Bailey wrote:

 Ok, let's kick this around.

 iterating an array(?; 1 dimensional listing of things) in php, I am
 creating a list of direcoties. I want to open and read in a file in each
 directory with a standard name, which contains a 1 line description of the
 directory and it's purpose.

 Now, here's the existing code; this code is online NOW at this url:
 http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php

  * 1>>>  which are      2NOT to be listed!
   3$excludes[] = 'images';
   4$excludes[] = 'cgi-bin';
   5$excludes[] = 'vti_cnf';
   6$excludes[] = 'private';
   7$excludes[] = 'thumbnail';
   8
   9$ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__));
  10foreach ($ls as $d) {
  11if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) &&
  12!in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {
  13     echo ''.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
  14 }
  15}
  16?>*

 Let's say the file to read in /elite is named 'desc.txt'.
 It looks like you want me to modify line 13 to say:
 echo ''.include($d.'desc.txt').''.PHP_EOL;

 so, if the file '/elite/desc.txt' contains the line

  *82nd Airbourne - We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers
  *

 Then that element in the list would appear as:

  * 82nd Airbourne  -We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers

 And would be clickable. Let's try it and see if this hound hunts.

 Matt Graham wrote:
>
> From: Kirk Bailey 
>
>> OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
>> in as an ssi include, will it still work?
>>
>
> If you're using Apache, and you do
>
> 
>
> ...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
> something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or $_SESSION
> or any
> of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do
>
> 
>
> ...then something.php will be able to see and work with the
> superglobals that
> have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what you want.
>  You
> could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.  I'll use
> SSI
> for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of code,
> because
> IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.
>
> Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.
>
>

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>>> end
>>>
>>> Very Truly yours,
>>>               - Kirk Bailey,
>>>                 Largo Florida
>>>
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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 15:58, Kirk Bailey  wrote:
>
> And it works!
>   BUT!
> Where is the "1" coming from?!?

No need to see the page.  You're echo'ing an include.  No need to
do that; including the file is enough, and that's what's working.
Adding the echo makes it print the status returned by 'include' ---
which is boolean TRUE, AKA 1.

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Re: [PHP] code quest

2010-12-04 Thread Tamara Temple


On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote:


the code is now:

  ';
echo include($d.'/desc.txt' );


There should be no echo here


echo ''.PHP_EOL;
}
  }
  ?>

And it works!
  BUT!
Where is the "1" coming from?!?
Please inspect the page and see what I mean. This is not in the  
code, and it's not in the source file. Link: http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php


I hope this dialog is proving at least mildly interesting to the  
remainder of the list as an educational exercise.



Tamara Temple wrote:


On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote:

The hound barks, but does not yet properly hunt, and we need to  
bring home the bacon.


OK, here is the current code:

 which

 are NOT to be listed!
 $excludes[] = 'images';
 $excludes[] = 'cgi-bin';
 $excludes[] = 'vti_cnf';
 $excludes[] = 'private';
 $excludes[] = 'thumbnail';

 $ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__));
 foreach ($ls as $d) {
   if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) &&
 !in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {
   echo ''.include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt')
 ;#.''.PHP_EOL;
   }
 }
 ?>

the url again, to view the results, is http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php 
 and is live right now. The results are a tad odd to say the least.




Ok, I don't think that's actually the code that generated the page  
you link to, but let's go with what you've got.


First of all, include() does not return a string to the calling  
program. include() basically redirects the php interpretter to  
process the contents of the file. What include() returns is success  
or failure of the execution of the included script. To use the  
current setup you have with the desc.txt files, you want to do  
something like this:


   echo '';
   include('./'.$d.'/desc.txt');
   echo ''.PHP_EOL;

If the file desc.txt contains only text, it will get sent to the  
browser as is.







Kirk Bailey wrote:

Ok, let's kick this around.

iterating an array(?; 1 dimensional listing of things) in php, I  
am creating a list of direcoties. I want to open and read in a  
file in each directory with a standard name, which contains a 1  
line description of the directory and it's purpose.


Now, here's the existing code; this code is online NOW at this url:
http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php

 * 1'.$d.''.PHP_EOL;
 14 }
 15}
 16?>*

Let's say the file to read in /elite is named 'desc.txt'.
It looks like you want me to modify line 13 to say:
echo ''.include($d.'desc.txt').'>'.PHP_EOL;


so, if the file '/elite/desc.txt' contains the line

 *82nd Airbourne - We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers
 *

Then that element in the list would appear as:

 * 82nd Airbourne  -We are an elite unit of army Paratroopers

And would be clickable. Let's try it and see if this hound hunts.

Matt Graham wrote:

From: Kirk Bailey 


OK, now here's a giggle; I like ssi includes. If I put the script
in as an ssi include, will it still work?



If you're using Apache, and you do



...the PHP in something.php will execute and produce output, but
something.php will not have any access to $_GET or $_POST or  
$_SESSION or any

of those things.  This is generally not what you want.  If you do



...then something.php will be able to see and work with the  
superglobals that
have been set up further up the page, which is *usually* what  
you want.  You
could try both approaches in a test env and see what you get.   
I'll use SSI
for "dumb" blocks of text and php include for "smart" blocks of  
code, because

IME that tends to produce fewer instances of gross stupidity.

Note that YMMV on all this and ICBW.






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