Posted by ZeldorBlat on 05/11/07 23:47

On May 11, 6:42 pm, Alan Jones <a...@jalanjones.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
>
> What I'm trying to do may not be advisable, but here goes...
>
> I want a page named signature.php to appear conditionally as
> an include within another include so that it will, for example,
> appear in index.php but not in other result pages that use the
> same top level include.
>
> The method would need to determine what page it is inside of
> during each given instance. I guess something like...
>
> if page is index.php then include file else do nothing
>
> A 'nested conditional' seems obvious but I don't know how to
> create an argument that checks the result page file name or
> otherwise id's that parent page.
>
> Obviously, I'm new to PHP and my understanding of basic
> programming is very limited. I'm also new to the group. I hope
> to learn quickly, and I look forward to helping others in the
> future.

You can always find out what the "top-level" script is with
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] then base your
decision to include on that.

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/
reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server>

However, if you want to include something on one page only why
wouldn't you just include it on that page? For example, if you want
to include "common.php" on every page and "signature.php" on index.php
only, why not just put the following on index.php:

include('common.php');
include('signature.php');

instead of putting signature.php inside common.php under some
condition?

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