echoing a php string with a wordpress include

with the following code

<?php
if (qtrans_getLanguage() == "en") {
   echo <?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_en.php' ); ?>;

}else{
      echo <?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_de.php' ); ?>;
   }
?>

i'm trying to include a file, based on the chosen language of the website. guess my idea is right but i'm totaly wrong on the syntax of using include in an echo..

can someone please开发者_开发问答 oint me in the right direction?

many thanks,

tobi.

You are already in PHP mode, so you don't need to re-open the PHP tags (<?php). Remove them, and it should work. You don't even need the echo, since PHP drops out of PHP mode and back in HTML mode when it includes a file.

<?php
if (qtrans_getLanguage() == "en") {
   include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_en.php' );

} else {
   include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_de.php' );
}
?>

You can't echo an include. Try just including the file, otherwise you can try the get_file_contents function, which returns the file as a string.

echo get_file_contents( TEMPLATEPATH . '/slider_de.php');

More info on get_file_contents: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php