Understanding PHP code includes

Question

I am pretty new to PHP. I am going through a website and am trying to find a source of some of the content and have come across what looks like where the source is, but I cannot decipher the code. Can someone help me understand what this means?

<?php

if (is_file($office_file)) 
    include($office_file);
echo do_shortcode(ob_get_clean());
?>

Thanks!

Brad Allred · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-01 22:40:26Z

1

I have copied your code and added comments that (hopefully) explain what is going on.

<?php
if (is_file($office_file)) // check if $office_file is a valid file
    include($office_file); // the check passes, so now include the contents of that file inline
echo do_shortcode(ob_get_clean()); // not enough context to know really what this does, but it looks like its printing the result of parsing 'shortcode' from an output buffer
?>

answered Aug 1, 2014 at 22:40

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gijigogo Over a year ago

Thank you! This helped a lot and I found my source file!

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