php include

poppy

Do you need to have a db to use php? For instance - I want to make a page that has 3 columns - the left column will be a menu, the middle will be content, and the right will be images.

I want to have 2 seperate files for the Left and Right column, so that those can be changed and updated - and then I can make random pages with different content in the middle column and just use the "include" command to include the colums on each page.

I've tried to do this without a db (because I'm having to work with a host who uses MS SQL 2000 - which I don't have - not mysql). ANyways, it's not working at all and I'm just curious if this is because I don't have the php pages linking to a db.

Can anyone help a newbie?
thanks!

kevinsequeira

post the code that u have till now

reg
kevin

hi-liter

check this out in the php.ini file:

; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"

;include_path = ".:/php/includes"
;
; Windows: "\path1;\path2"
;include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"

make sure it's where your includes are going, or change it.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php#ini.include-path

.http://us2.php.net/function.include

but w/out additional info on your issue, hard to just guess

poppy

umm...ok, this is going to be a really dumb question, but I've always worked with hosts that had everything set up for me. Where do I find the php.ini file?

hi-liter

Originally posted by poppy
it's not working at all

as kevinsequeira said, it would be good idea to give a little more info on the issue, what code, error messg, what happens, what is your file named, *.php?... etc.

re: your host, they may be able to supply you w/ info IF that is the issue. do they say where req'd to put includes -- and i'm only GUESSING here too. it may not be that.

poppy

this is the code I have now...I'm just testing it to try to get it to work...

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

kevinsequeira

u can't include a file through a URL like

<?php require_once ('http://www.eatsleephockey.com/firstcol.html')?>

u have do it throught the directory path on the hard drive

<?php require_once ('/path_to_your_file/firstcol.html')?>

if u do need to use URLs then read up on this in the manual

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php#ini.allow-url-fopen

reg
kevin

poppy

That worked!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much for all your patience and help!!!!!!!