Include virtual help

Anon

please help me,

here is the structure of my webpage.

/html/images 'store images
/html/etc 'include files
/html/main 'frontpage
/html/feedback 'feedback page
/html/about 'about page

In the folder /html/etc i have two main include files, header.in and footer.in where they pull images from the /html/images directive and link to each individual content page.
the code for one of the file for example '/html/about/index.php' is....

<? include("/html/etc/header.in")
?>

<? include("/html/etc/footer.in")
?>

my problem is that php won't parse the include file. (it won't include my code from /html/etc/header.in. The output after running athe file '/html/about/index.php'
is just the same as the page itself.

<? include("/html/etc/header.in")
?>

<? include("/html/etc/footer.in")
?>

-----===== I read a macromedia webdesign book, and it said that i could only include a file that do not have the following tags

,,<header>,</body>,<body>

is it true? I just want to make an include page of a navigation bar in which I do not have to update every page on my website. please help me, tahnkx

Anon

Can you use any PHP code in the page? like

<? print "testing 1 2 3"; ?>

If you put that in the page, what happens? If nothing happens, then it may be that your file extension is not.php, or your web server is not setup correctly to use PHP

Diego

Anon

nah, itz not that, just that apache wont include the file /html/header.in and /html/footer.in

Anon

Well, I pasted your code and it ran fine in my computer (well, it gave me warnings that it couldn't include the file, but that means it at least it parsed it).

"I read a macromedia webdesign book, and it said that i could only include a file that do not have the following tags

,,<header>,</body>,<body>

is it true?"

No, that's not true. You can include ANY file. The reason that book said that is because it is bad HTML if you have more than one <body> tag in an HTML file. But PHP-wise, you can include ANY file.

Diego