another PHP include problem

include using variables

[webfoo]

In the development of a primitive CMS:

<?php
$pgstr='"' . $page . '.inc"'; 
echo $pgstr;
include($pgstr);
?>

The $page variable is REQUESTed from the URL. The code block above is supposed create a string, and then include that string.

About the string - if $page="Contact" the string needs to be "Contact.inc".

It's not working. No error messages, the rest of the page executes fine. It just seems to ignore the include line.

I put the echo $pgstr; in to test that it formed the string properly - that does work.

Any suggestions?

[russkern]

Try forming your include file this way:

include('./'.$pgstr);

[webfoo]

Nope, that didn't work.

However, the problem is solved! I went at it from the other angle and just did

include($page);

and then removed the .inc extension from each file. That works!

Thanks.

[coopster]

It looks like you were attempting to include a string rather than a filename.

include $page . '.inc';

That probably would have worked.