Question

Please review the example code below, I have a class file that is loaded into a config file. The config file is then loaded into any page I build. Is it possible to include a header file the way I have in the show_header() method? It doesn’t seem to work so how can I achieve this result?

// Core.class.php
class Core
{

    public function show_header($page_name){
        require_once 'includes/header.inc.php';
    }

}

// config.inc.php
require_once 'Core.class.php';
$core = New core;



// testpage.php
require_once 'config.inc.php';
$core->show_header('home');

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Here is the top part of the header.inc.php file I am trying to include into the page, it seems to work including it but it breaks the way the header file works.

//header.inc.php
<?PHP

//start page timer
$session->get('user_id');
$profiler = new Profiler;
$profiler->start();


//see if site is turned on/off
$core->sitestatus($config['site_status']); 

This part gives me errors like this…

Notice: Undefined variable: session in
C:\webserver\htdocs\friendproject2\includes\header.inc.php
on line 5

Fatal error: Call to a member function
get() on a non-object in
C:\webserver\htdocs\friendproject2\includes\header.inc.php
on line 5

Answer 1

re your comment, sounds like you need a root web context object that you reference the other objects from:

$ctx = WebContext::get();
$ctx->session->get('x');
$ctx->input->get('y');
$ctx->identity->valid;

etc… this is how most web frameworks do it.

$session would need to be defined, then referenced in the included file:

// If a global variable:
global $session;
$session->get('x');

// If a member of Core:
$this->session->get('x');

yes you can do that, probably you’ll want require instead of require_once, and the paths would need to be based on the current working directory or an absolute path

try adding error_reporting(E_ALL) to see if any notices are happening…