Using phpInclude

[Cabana]

This code goes in my phpInclude:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/clsBanner.php");
$banner = new banners();

How do I get this code to work in a template?
$banner->largeBanner();

I tried putting this in the header so I could use $bannerCode in the template, but it displayed the banner at the top, not where I wanted:
$bannerCode = $banner->largeBanner();

[perfectphp]

Either try using
$banner->largeBanner();
where you want the banner to display... or...

$bannerCode = $banner->largeBanner();
where you want the banner to display

[Cabana]

The first gives me (): while the second gives me =(); - neither work because the code is stripped. Thanks for trying though, have any other ideas? This is frustrating.

[filburt1]

Are you putting $bannerCode = $banner->largeBanner(); in the header template or the phpinclude template? :confused:

[Cabana]

I put it in the phpInclude template so then I could put $banner in the header template, but that just processes the code at the very top of the page instead of where I put $banner. I can't put that line in any other template because it's PHP and that doesn't work.

[filburt1]

I'm confused; is this what you're doing:

in phpinclude:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/clsBanner.php");
$banner = new banners();
$bannerCode = $banner->largeBanner();

in header:

$bannerCode

?

[Cabana]

Correct. What that does is place the processed PHP code at the very top of the html file, not in the header where I want it.

[Chen]

phpinclude:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/clsBanner.php');
$banner = new banners();
ob_start();
$banner->largeBanner();
$bannerCode = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

header:
$bannedCode
:)

[Cabana]

Thank you thank you thank you! :) I'm fairly clueless when it comes to these things.

[Raz Meister]

Very ineffiencent!

You should integrate the code properly!