I am writing a plugin that requires a large chunk of html. Now the way how it is set up now works.
return <<<EOT <html> EOT;
But I want to split the file into different php files that i can include. Now I tried this, but it does not work:
ob_start();
include(plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ).'file.php');
return ob_get_clean();
Any know how this could be done?
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EDIT
Ok thanks Chris Carson to I have found the small error, I changed the code to:
ob_start();
include(plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ).'/file.php');
return ob_get_clean();
This is working ok now, except for one small problem.
In the previous code I used something like this:
$variable = 'Hello!';
return <<<EOT
<span>{$variable}</span>
EOT;
This would have made the following in html:
<span>Hello!</span>
But now this:
$variable = 'Hello!';
ob_start();
include(plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ).'/file.php');
return ob_get_clean();
This just prints
<span>{$variable}</span>
Any way to get the code working with variables.
When including files you don’t want the URL, but the filesystem path instead. So…
Remember to put the first forward slash in
/path/to/myfile.php, sincedirnamedoesn’t include the trailing slash.