Sorry for jumping the gun and making assumptions earlier.
I have tried losing the ignore and copy-pasteing to debug it.
Here's the non-includified source code:
welcome.php
PHP Code:
<?php
function makeParas($txtfile) {
$fullpath = 'http://'.$HTTP_SERVER_VARS[HTTP_HOST].$HTTP_SERVER_VARS[REQUEST_URI];
$thisfile = basename($fullpath);
$cutoffpos = strpos($fullpath,$thisfile);
$thisdir = substr($fullpath, 0, $cutoffpos);
// $thisdir is the full path minus filename incluing trailing slash:
// "www.mysite.com/thisdir/"
if (!$txtfile) {
// no text file [error]
return "<p>error msg here</p>";
}
else {
$path2paras = $thisdir.$txtfile;
$content_array = file($path2paras);
$content = implode("",$content_array);
$paras = explode("{",$content);
foreach ($paras as $value) {
$lencssclass = strstr($value,"}")-1;
if ($lencssclass > 0) {
$cssclass = substr($value,"1",$lencssclass);
$paratxt = substr($value,$lencssclass+2);
$parasrc .= "<p class=\"".$cssclass."\">".$paratxt."</p>\n";
}
else {
$paratxt = substr($value,2);
$parasrc .= "<p>".$paratxt."</p>\n";
}
}
return $parasrc;
}
}
echo makeParas("welcome.p");
?>
welcome.p
Code:
{cssclass1}first para with cssclass1 as it's css class.
{}second para with no css class associated
{}again no css class
{bigtext}fat text
(NB: In source is all one line but I added linebreaks so as not to stretch the screen)
errors
Warning: file("welcome.p") - No such file or directory in C:\phpdev\www\public\includes\content\welcome.php on line 17
Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in C:\phpdev\www\public\includes\content\welcome.php on line 18
I'll try to explain the script.
1. welcome.p is a text file defining the text to put into paragraphs and for some paras, a css class to apply to them.
2. the script opens the above text file and implodes it into one long string (for convenience) and then explodes it by the character { (the start of every para's configuration).
3. for each seperate part of the array (read: each paragraph):
4. if $cssclasslen (the number of chars between {} ) is non-zero, then get the chars between the curly brackets and make the start tag (including class="cssclass"). Then get the rest of the text (the content) and add it between the start tag and an end tag. append this para to $parasrc
5. if $cssclasslen is zero, there is no class so just get the text and sandwich it between "<p>" and "</p>". append this para to $parasrc
6. return $parasrc - the code for all the paras.
I know you may say this is a pointless excersise - "why don't you just make welcome.p contain HTML code?" - but I chose to do it this way, and I'd like to make it work... purely to see where i went wrong so I don't do it again. Thanks.
Before you post, read our: 
I forgot that $thisdir would return the dir in which curvy.php is in, not welcome.php (which was included in curvy.php) Sorry for not mentioning it earlier... most of this was coded late last night, as you can probs tell.
