PHP Include... Again!

[nikomou]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if its possible to do a "find and replace" on the content pulled in from a php include...??

I'm including some pages into my site (from an affiliate) but would like to change a bit of the code...

Cheers.

[Twey]

You need to use an output buffer.

<?php
ob_start();
include("http://www.affiliate.com/page.php");
$inc = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>

You can then use str_replace() and friends on $inc, which is a string containing the page, before echoing it.

[nikomou]

use str_replace() and friends on $inc, which is a string containing the page, before echoing it.

$inc_new = str_replace("the text i want changing", "what i am changing it to?", $inc);


I'm not sure what you mean by

and friends on $inc.

[Twey]

That's the one. Although you might as well reuse $inc, unless you'll want the original back again.

I'm not sure what you mean by

and friends on $inc.

str_replace() and the other string functions (str_split(), substr(), &c.) as needed.

[nikomou]

Cheers for that.

Could you just quickly tell me what is wrong with the following code? (this has nothing to do with editing the accual page i am including...)


(before the Head)
setcookie("tracking", $tracking, time()+31536000);
$tracking = $_GET['tracking'];

(in the body)
if (isset($_COOKIE["tracking"]))
include ("http://www.affiliatewebsite.com/?tracking=" . $_COOKIE["tracking"]);

[Twey]

setcookie("tracking", $tracking, time()+31536000);
$tracking = $_GET['tracking'];

You've used $tracking before declaring it. The second argument to setcookie() will always be blank, and will throw a warning with E_STRICT error reporting.

[nikomou]

ok, i've swaped these over

$tracking = $_GET['tracking'];
setcookie("tracking", $tracking, time()+31536000);

if i use ?tracking=adwords after the url, a cookie is made, and everything works, but if i refresh the page, removing the ?tracking=adwords, the cookie gets deleted!

How can I stop this from happening??

The include also doesnt show if there is no "?tracking=xxxx" after the url

[Twey]

The include doesn't show because the cookie doesn't get set. The cookie doesn't get set because you set a blank cookie if $_GET['tracking'] isn't set. Just use an if(isset($_GET['tracking'])) before the setcookie() call.

[nikomou]

i tried that,

the cookie still gets deleted if there is no ?tracking=xxxx

and again, no included page.

[Twey]

Peculiar... please post your full code (inside [php] or [code] tags).