echo not working

[¤| battousai |¤]

sorry to post another problem so soon after my first one, but this has been bothering me for some time now.

Sometimes I can't get the echo funtion to work

I already use the $root succesfully in all the href and src attributes

last week I wanted to echo a var which returns the current schoolyear, thus this year being schoolyear 2006 - 2007

but the echo didn't seem to work unless I would put the script in the same file as the echo. However the same file contained numerous instances of <?php echo[/color $root ?> for links and img sources

[Dani]

I'm very confused by your question. Can you please provide an example of your specific code, what it currently does, and what you would like it to do.

[¤| battousai |¤]

I'm sorrr, I'l give you an example

some pages on the website contain dates and schoolyear references.
To make these dynamic I have already added a block of code to get the current schoolyear, and it sits in config.php:

// retrieve the current and previous year(four digits)
  $last_year = date( 'Y' );       //retrieve date of this year
  $last_year = ($last_year - 1);  //and reduce it by 1 to get the date of last year
  $this_year = date( 'Y' );       //retrieve date of this year
  $this_year = ($this_year - 0);
  $schoolyear = $last_year . " - " . $this_year; //defining the current school year

then I echo $schoolyear on the needed pages.

Sadly the echo didn't seem to work, even when I replaced $schoolyear with $root or another variable that is frequently used succesfully on many pages

the pages resides in a lv1 directory
config.php
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-- nl

[¤| battousai |¤]

I'm sorrr, I'l give you an example

some pages on the website contain dates and schoolyear references.
To make these dynamic I have added a block of code to retrieve the ongoin schoolyear, and it sits in config.php:

// retrieve the current and previous year(four digits)
  $last_year = date( 'Y' );       //retrieve date of this year
  $last_year = ($last_year - 1);  //and reduce it by 1 to get the date of last year
  $this_year = date( 'Y' );       //retrieve date of this year
  $this_year = ($this_year - 0);
  $schoolyear = $last_year . " - " . $this_year; //defining the current school year

then I put

<?php echo $schoolyear ?>

on the needed pages.

Sadly echo didn't seem to work, even when I replaced $schoolyear with $root or any other variable that is frequently used succesfully on many pages

what's even more bizarre is that on another file, example.php I have put the same string.
(example.php is used for the navigation sidebar)

example.php:

// subscribtions for 2006 - 2007 are closed
<a href="<?php echo $root ?>index.php?name=...">subscribtions for <?php echo $schoolyear ?> are closed</a>

this works!

the tree:

/var/test- config.php
/var/test/common_files - example.php
/var/test/nl - page.php

[hradek]

So you are including this page in the other page? When you echo this variable on config.php, does it display then? Are you including this config.php page more than once?

[deni]

may be you can use
<?echo $schoolyear;?>
or
<?=$schoolyear;?>

[crazynp]

can you use

print("$schoolyear");

[¤| battousai |¤]

The site is deploying the same principle as inline frames

config.php:

foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {	
    if ($key == 'dir') { 
      $dir = $value;
    }
    else {
      $var = $value;
    }
  }

index.php:

<?php Include 'config.php'; ?>
<!-- banner -->
<?php Include 'common_files/banner.php'; ?>
<!-- navcontainer -->
<?php Include 'common_files/navcontainer.php'; ?>
<!-- wrapper -->
<?php Include 'common_files/wrapper.php'; ?>

wrapper:

<!-- container -->
<?php include $root . 'nl/' . $dir . '/' . $var . '.php'; ?>
<!-- examplelist -->(quick links bar)			
<?php Include 'examplelist.php'; ?>
<!-- footer -->
<?php Include 'footer.php'; ?>

so eventually all files are gathered in index.php

I have put a small check subroutine on page.php, using IsSet to determine if $schoolyear is asigned, the check returned FALSE :confused:

since page.php is included in wrapper.php,which is included in index.php, it would seem that $schoolyear doesn't reach past wrapper.php, thus the limitations of include?