Re: PHP - require or include

["Milan Zdimal" <milanz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since PHP version 2 I haven't seen the use of echo with parenthesis. Most
people opt for a simple echo "Booyaaa"; instead of echo("Booyaa"); since
"echo" is not really a function. Read more here:
http://www.php.net/echo

Happy php coding.

Milan


On 10/3/07, Joel Cochran <joelcochran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Simon Cockayne <simon.cockayne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Larry, Jim, Joel,
> >
> > *** In addition to echo you can also use: include, include_once, require
> > or
> > require_once, to bring in the contents of another file...which could
> > contain
> > straight HTML or code to produce HTML.
> >
> > See http://devzone.zend.com/manual/function.require.html.
> >
> >
> > This is an excellent way to modularise your code...i.e. a change to the
> > included/required file is rippled throughout all files that
> > include/require
> > it, e.g:
> By and far my favorite feature of PHP.  All my websites are designed with
> this modular approach.  It allows me to have a single file for updating
> the
> banner, another for the footer, another for the navigation, etc. etc.  I
> can
> change the entire site by updating a single file.  Very handy.  In fact,
> for
> you to take advantage of reusable OO PHP code, this is necessary (I
> recommend require_once for OO includes).
>
> BUT: let's not confuse things and say it is a replacement for echo(),
> because it isn't.  They serve two distinct functions: echo outputs to
> standard out (in PHP's case, this is back to the browser).  All the
> include
> functions do is bring the contents of another file into the current code,
> kind of like a /copy in RPG.  They bring them in at the exact placement of
> the statement and they may or may not contain code that gets directly
> outputted to the browser.  As I mentioned above, they may simply include
> class definitions or functions.
>
> I just felt it was an important distinction.
>
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> Joel Cochran
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