Include Path help?

JayZ

Hi All,

Hope someone can help.
I wish to include a page from another directory, and the page within that directory also includes other files within the same directory.

Where a normal include will not work, how do i go about also using the $path statement?

Can someone show me an example?

Thanks.

rIkLuNd

For example: you have 'index.php' in one directory, and 'page1.php' and 'page2.php' in a sub-dir. Then you could do like this:

<?php

# index.php

$path = "dir";
include("".$path."/page1.php");

# page1.php
include("".$path."/page2.php");

?>

I think that this should work!

swjohnson

In my index.php file I have only 4 include statements...

include("header.inc.php")
include("sidemenu.inc.php")
include("vars.inc.php")
include("footer.inc.php")

Now, the only one that we are interested in is the vars.inc.php. The other three stay static.

In vars.inc.php I have all of my $variables AND a massive if/else statement (I couldn't get the switch statement to work).

So, if the sidemenu $pages variable is activated to go to the Contact Us the link reads like this...

<img src="images/spacer.gif" width=3 height=5 border=0>
<a href="index.php?pages=contact">Contact Us</a>

Notice that the href contains a passed value in the variable pages...

Now when this value is passed to the vars.inc.php script you will find...

if ($pages == "contact")
{
$title="SoftNuggets.Com";
include("contact.inc.php");
}
elseif...

...{
$title="SoftNuggets.Com";
include("body1.inc.php");
}

//End of if/else statements

This means that any value NOT found will endup displaying my body1.inc.php statement.

To see it in action go to http://www.softnuggets.com

Note that the site is still under construction so everything isn't working correctly (especially the fourm) .

The important thing is to see how quickly the text area loads and how it looks as if the static areas appear not to change at all.

I started this by creating an html page I liked and then divided it up into small files for specific portions of the page so in reality ONLY the text area changes.

swjohnson

I failled to completely address your question.

In my if/else statement the statement could read...

include("/download/downloadmenu.inc.php")

thereby taking you down to the download subdirectory and showing a menu for products to download.

Additionally, by having the pages variable (see above post) pass values of page1 or page2 or page3 (as I did at SoftNuggets.Com) you can step through your pages.

JayZ

Thanks for the help, still having problems.

rIkLuNd: I am using a similar piece of code.

I have index.php that calls page1.php in a subdirectory.
The page1.php then calls several other .php pages within the same subdirectory.

The problem being index.php calls page1.php ok, but page1.php can not call other .php pages.

Is this due to index.php pulling page1.php out of its subdirectory and then page1.php can not call nothing else as it's running from root?

swjohnson: Im already using if statements for my menu, i was referring to paths ($path).
Thanks for you help.

swjohnson

On page1 do a variable $path="thisdirectory/";

Then in your if statements do...

If ($pages="page2")
{
include("$path.page2.php");
}
else if ($pages="page3"
{
include("$path.page3.php");
}

etc.

Maybe what you are not doing is contcatinating the path to the page...

This is accomplished with a period (.).

JayZ

Ok, will give it a shot, thanks for your help.

swjohnson

the include statement should be...

include("$path"."page2.html");

I forgot to put quotes around the two different parts of the equation.

Looking at this, you may not need the quote marks around the $path...

Still too new to PHP myself.