Small If Statement help

[QuizToon]

Hi all

Searched all over the place but just can't get this to work. I think I have followed what I have found on the web but it just aint working. Any assistance would be gratefully received.

If the field says yes i want to display a file if not then i dont want it to do anything.

Thisd is what I have done:

if ($activity == "rec"){
    echo "filename.php<br />";
} else {
    echo "";
} 

I also tried include('filename.php') but that didnt work either

Please help, its driving me nuts

Thanks

[Mark Baker]

if ($activity == "rec"){
    echo file_get_contents("filename.php");
} else {
    echo "";
} 

[ferrari_chris]

if ($activity == "rec"){
    include "filename.php";
} 

[QuizToon]

Thanks for that, cant beleive i was so close yet so bloody far away

Can I also do this?

if ($activity == "rec"){

    include "/home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/directoryname/filename.php";

} 

and can I include a file outside of the root directory?

Once again Many Thanks

[Young Twig]

Thanks for that, cant beleive i was so close yet so bloody far away

Can I also do this?

if ($activity == "rec"){

    include "/home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/directoryname/filename.php";

} 

and can I include a file outside of the root directory?

Once again Many Thanks

That should work, yes.

You can include any file on your server that is within the open_basedir setting (if any exists). Depending on your server setup, you can probably access anything inside of /home/sites/mydomain.com.

[rewy]

and can I include a file outside of the root directory?

You can include any file as long as you have read permissions for that file

[Young Twig]

You can include any file as long as you have read permissions for that file

Right, you'll need those too.

[QuizToon]

Great stuff

Thanks a lot everyone

Once again Sitepoint comes to the rescue