Weird Error

[Guest_imported]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew what's wrong with the line of coding below:

include('bandreviews.php?band_id='.$band_id.'');

For some reason I seem to get the error below even though if i put that address "bandreviews.php?band_id=2" in my browser it works.:

Warning: Failed opening 'bandreviews.php?band_id=2' for inclusion (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in /home/virtual/newfound/home/httpd/html/banddatabase2/reviewband2.php on line 39

I'd be greatful if you could help. Cheers

 

[danielhozac]

The include function tries to open the file with the name of the argument. So when you specify bandreviews.php?band_id='.$band_id.'' as the filename it would try and open a file named bandreviews.php?band_id=CONTENT OF $band_id.
This is wrong. You cannot pass GET arguments with the include function, at least not the way you want. The bandreviews.php file would have access to all the variables that are available in the script calling the include function, as the contents of the file are _included_ in the script before it's executed.
All you really need is this:

include('bandreview.php');

When you use $band_id in the bandreview.php script, it would have the same value as the script that used the include function has. //Daniel