Posted by Alan Jones on 05/12/07 23:33

On Sat, 12 May 2007 00:23:04 -0400, Norman Peelman
<npeelman@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

>Alan Jones 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.
>
> I think you're looking for the $_SERVER super_global variable. Check
>http://www.php.net/reserved.variables $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] holds the
>info you're looking for.
>
>Norm

Thank you very much for the help. :) I'll give your recommendation
a run thru, but is there a way to make basename, or a similar
function, simply return the filename of the parent page; the page
the include is in? Thanks again, I really appreciate any help I can
get.

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