Included files share the same global symbol table as the parent file. So,
simply do:
$file = "somefile.txt";
include "counter.php";
And by the way, please don't use "$file". It makes no sense. Just $file.
-Rasmus
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Andrew V. Romero wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to pass some variables to a php file
> that will be accessed via the include command? For example, I am
> working on creating a nicer "hits" counter and would like to just write
> the code for the counter once and then have each page access that
> counter.php3 and pass a variable which would contain the page name to
> counter.php3 so counter.php3 could write the new counter to a file with
> the pageName.log. Right now I am using a very simple counter:
> -counter.php3-
> $file = "interest";
> $counterFile=fopen("$file".".log","r");
> $counterRecord = trim( fgets($counterFile, 4096) );
> fclose($counterFile);
> $counterRecord++;
> $counterFile = fopen("$file".".log", "w");
> fwrite($counterFile,"$counterRecord");
> fclose($counterFile);
>
> Ideally, I would like to have each of my pages call counter.php3 using
> the include command and have the page pass it the variable $file. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew V. Romero
>
>
>
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