Question

newbie in PHP here, sorry for troubling you.

I want to ask something, if I want to include a php page, can I use parameter to define the page which I’ll be calling?

Let’s say I have to include a title part in my template page. Every page has different title which will be represented as an image. So,

is it possible for me to call something <?php @include('title.php',<image title>); ?> inside my template.php?

so the include will return title page with specific image to represent the title.

thank you guys.

Answer 1

An included page will see all the variables for the current scope.

$title = 'image title';
include('title.php');

Then in your title.php file that variable is there.

echo '<h1>'.$title.'</h1>';

It’s recommended to check if the variable isset() before using it. Like this.

if(isset($title))
{
    echo '<h1>'.$title.'</h1>';
}
else
{
    // handle an error
}

EDIT:

Alternatively, if you want to use a function call approach. It’s best to make the function specific to activity being performed by the included file.

function do_title($title)
{
     include('title.php');  // note: $title will be a local variable
}