Yep, ordered the manuals from Amazon.com... and they inadvertently shipped the books to my mom-in-law.... ha ha..... except that she's retired and computers are still a mystery. So, I am muddling through with my PHP dev. dictionary until I get to see my relatives this weekend. (cheesy smiley) Tami
"Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 20:58, Team GotFusion wrote: > > I have people telling me that I MUST put the <?include?> file before or > > inside the header of the .php file I am writing before a script is pulled > > into my file. I usually just put the <?include?> whereever I need it on the > > page. Actually have it embedded in an IF statement, so that if the > > conditions are not met, the script is not run and there is no need to pull > > in the script. It works fine.... > > > > Is placing the include at the top absolutely required, good programming > > convention or just preferred? > > Simply put, you can place them wherever you want. Obviously if your include > file defines certain variables then common sense dictates that you include it > before you refer to those variables. > > All this and more is covered in the manual. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk > > /* > It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. > -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) > */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
