Prblems with require() and include_path??

RussW

Okay I'm a noob! I admit this up front.

I have a test web site running locally.
"http://localhost/testweb"

I have subdirectories under the testweb folder called includes, images and band. Includes holds all my common header and footer include files. The images directory holds all the graphics that are used in the the headers and footers. The band directory is another web page that also uses the includes and images. So the directory structure looks like this:
testweb |
|-- includes
|-- images
|-- Band

My problem is getting the paths to work properly within the index.php file that resides in the testweb directory. index.php has a lines like so:

$INCLUDEPATH = "http://localhost/testweb/includes"

require($INCLUDEPATH."/header.inc")

Here I get a fatal error:
Failed Opening required 'var/www/html/testweb/includes/header.inc"
(include path = .:/usr/share/pear) in var/www/html/testweb/index.php on line 4.

Okay so how do I set this up to work properly?

What if I move this code to a real web server how will I get it to work there?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards
Russ

delassus

I am assuming that you are building your site locally and after testing it locally will obtain web space to go live. One problem to consider now is unless you will be getting a dedicated server (I am guessing not) you will not have access to the configuration file. The web host provider will maintain control of the configuration file that applies to all the users they sell web space on that server. You will be stuck with how they configure it. This makes a difference how you set up your include files.

I make all of my include files relative to the include file directory. I have many sub directories that are 4-5 levels deep into the file structure. For your include file in your index.php file the code would be:

include "includes/header.inc"

If you were down (2) levels like in testweb/dir1/dir2/result.php your include file would look like:

include "../includes/header.inc"

It takes you back 2 directories and finds the includes directory.

This is what works for me. I am also a newbee so others more experienced may have better ideas. If you will have access to the configuration file when you go live a better solution may be to configuration the file to show where to get all of your include files.

David

RussW

David

Yes changing the require() to this:

require("includes/header.inc")

worked just fine.

Thanks