Put a PHP call within a PHP call?

[robcub]

I'm not sure if I'm doing this the right way.

What I want to do is to include a different slideshow with every different page. Each slideshow includes 4 or 5 images and is 4 or 5 lines of HTML

I would like to include this on the page.php as a <?php include ()?>

And I would like the include file to be determined by a custom field with the name "slide".

So if I create a page and the custom field has the value "home-slide", I would like the page.php to spit out:

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/home-slide.php'); ?>

But I can't work out how to achieve that in the loop. I have tried:

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/<?php echo $slide; ?>.php'); ?>

and

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'slide', true); ?>.php'); ?>

but they don't work.

[andreasnrb]

Dont put <?php within <?php. Dont use echo.
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . "/$slide.php"); ?>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'slide', true).'.php'); ?>

[robcub]

Thank you so much, Andreas. The second one worked.

Seems obvious now, but I was stuck for ages on this. Cheers.

[Ryan]

echo is for displaying something on the page, whereas what you were trying to do was to call another file (which may or may not echo something itself).

This stuff is confusing for a start, but you will soon get the hang of it :)

[robcub]

This stuff is confusing for a start, but you will soon get the hang of it :)

Sure hope so, Ryan. Thanks!