Posted by Colin McKinnon on 10/25/18 12:00

One wrote:

> Andy Hassall wrote:
>> You can't do that. "?" is for URLs, but you're specifying a filename.
>> With the
>> "?", you're specifying a filename that doesn't exist.
>
> ah ha. I know - In the past I have passed it as a parameter like this :
> include "http://www.www.com/file.php?menu=david"
> This has worked.

Yes, but its very dangerous unless you really, really know what you're
doing.
>
>> If you want to pass variables into the include file, just set them
>> before you
>> do the include, they'll be visible in the include file. (Or pass them as
>> parameters to whatever functions you define in the include file).
>
> You mean like this ?
>
> <?php
> echo "<form><input type="hidden" name=menuid" value="david"></form>";
> include file.php
> ?>
>

No - like

$GLOBALS['menuid']='david';
include ('file.php');

C.

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