Question

I have a PHP script that and at a certain point i want to include another script, but i want the script to run as if it is apart of the original file and doesn’t have to be called by a function or a class:

if(strpos('X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook', $raw_headers)) {
include 'outlookImageParse.php';
outlookImageParse($html_part);

but the included script doesn’t work even when i define it as a function in that file and call it from the original. I’ve used, require, require_once, include_once, but none perform as how i want it to. What to do to get what i’m trying to achieve?

Answer 1

When you include() (or require, etc) the script is treated as if it were dropped directly into the file, exactly where your include was – see the following example.

file1.php

<?php
$var1 = 'hello';
$var2 = 123;

include('file2.php');

echo $var4; // echoes "bbq"

$var5 = 123456;
func1($var5); // echoes "Function! 123456"
?>

---

file2.php

<?php
echo $var1; // echoes "hello"

$var4 = 'bbq';
function func1 ($var)
{
    echo 'Function! ' . $var;
}
?>