Passing Variables to a require_once() Page

[darryladie]

Hi, I have a page that I want to add to all the pages on my site (the navigation), I am using require_once() to add the navigation html page to the pages, this is working beautifully. But how do I send a variable to the page in the require_once() function? For example:

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  $nolinkindex = "5"; @ require_once ("common/nav.html"); 

[sypher]

u mean $_POST['name'] ?

[flann]

you should be able to put $var = $_POST['name']; in the require_once file and then use it on the page that has the included file.

[ukgeoff]

The require_once() function is only needed when you are pulling in a file of functions and you code is such that this command could execute more than once.

If you just need to pull in a common html file, such as the navigation for a site, then you should be using the

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include('navigation.html');

instruction.

Any php code within this file can pick up any variables set by other snippets of php elsewhere in the host file.