Include part of a PHP file - php

Question

I have a PHP file (Region.php) and an excerpt of my code is:
<?php
/** Create HTTP POST */
$country = 'Australia';
$area = htmlspecialchars($_POST["area"]);
$seek = '<parameters>
<row><param>COUNTRY</param><value>'. $country .'</value></row>
<row><param>AREA</param><value>'. $area .'</value></row>
</parameters>';
$postdata = http_build_query(
array(
'DistributorKey' => '201201100935',
'CommandName' => 'GetCities',
'CommandParameters' => $seek)
);
$opts = array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $postdata)
);
/** Get string output of XML (In URL instance) */
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = file_get_contents('http://national.atdw.com.au/soap/AustralianTourismWebService.asmx/CommandHandler?', false, $context);
/** Change encoding from UTF-16 to Unicode (UTF-8)
Parse unstructured tags */
$result = str_replace('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>', '', $result);
$result = str_replace('<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/soap/AustralianTourismWebService">', '', $result);
$result = str_replace('</string>', '', $result);
$result = str_replace('utf-16', 'utf-8', $result);
$result = simplexml_load_string(trim(html_entity_decode($result)), 'SimpleXMLElement');
/** Instantiate Loop */
foreach ($result->area as $entry) {
echo $entry->attributes()->area_name . "<br /><br />";
}
foreach ($result->area->city as $entry) {
$pna = htmlspecialchars_decode($entry->attributes()->suburb_city_postal_code, ENT_QUOTES);
$pna = str_replace("'", "''", $pna);
$str = htmlspecialchars_decode($entry->attributes()->attribute_id_status, ENT_QUOTES);
$str = str_replace("'", "''", $str);
echo $pna. "<br />";
echo $str . "<br />";
echo (string)$entry . "<br /><br />";
}
?>
I have another PHP file (Houses.php) but I need only the value of $entry->attributes()->area_name in the Houses.php file. Excerpt of my code in Houses.php:
<?php
require_once 'Region.php';
/** Create HTTP POST */
$accomm = 'ACCOMM';
$region = '('$entry->attributes()->area_name')';
$page = '10';
---- some code ---
?>
I keep getting errors because it is executes the entire Region.php file whereas I only need the value of the attribute().
Please how can I fix this.
Thanks

Answer 1

I can interpret comments as this, as you cannot include only part of a PHP file:
Create a file header.inc.php, not header.inc for security, as one can download a .inc as source file by bad config, but not .php, as executed by apache2 :
<?php
/** Create HTTP POST */
$country = 'Australia';
$area = htmlspecialchars($_POST["area"]);
$seek = '<parameters>
<row><param>COUNTRY</param><value>'. $country .'</value></row>
<row><param>AREA</param><value>'. $area .'</value></row>
</parameters>';
$postdata = http_build_query(
array(
'DistributorKey' => '201201100935',
'CommandName' => 'GetCities',
'CommandParameters' => $seek)
);
$opts = array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $postdata)
);
/** Get string output of XML (In URL instance) */
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = file_get_contents('http://national.atdw.com.au/soap/AustralianTourismWebService.asmx/CommandHandler?', false, $context);
/** Change encoding from UTF-16 to Unicode (UTF-8)
Parse unstructured tags */
$result = str_replace('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>', '', $result);
$result = str_replace('<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/soap/AustralianTourismWebService">', '', $result);
$result = str_replace('</string>', '', $result);
$result = str_replace('utf-16', 'utf-8', $result);
$result = simplexml_load_string(trim(html_entity_decode($result)), 'SimpleXMLElement');
?>
Shorten the Region.php file:
<?php
require_once "header.inc.php";
/** Instantiate Loop */
foreach ($result->area as $entry) {
echo $entry->attributes()->area_name . "<br /><br />";
}
foreach ($result->area->city as $entry) {
$pna = htmlspecialchars_decode($entry->attributes()->suburb_city_postal_code, ENT_QUOTES);
$pna = str_replace("'", "''", $pna);
$str = htmlspecialchars_decode($entry->attributes()->attribute_id_status, ENT_QUOTES);
$str = str_replace("'", "''", $str);
echo $pna. "<br />";
echo $str . "<br />";
echo (string)$entry . "<br /><br />";
}
?>
In House.php:
<?php
require_once 'header.inc.php';
/** Create HTTP POST */
$accomm = 'ACCOMM';
$region = "";
foreach ($result->area as $entry) {
$region = $entry->attributes()->area_name;
break;
}
$page = '10';
---- some code ---
?>
All the tree files must reside in the same directory/folder.

Answer 2

Organize your code into functions:
myfuncts.php
function fn1() {
...stuff...
...stuff...
} // fn1()
function fn2() {
...things...
...things...
} // fn2()
Then you can use them by simply calling:
require("functions.php");
fn1();
fn3();