php variable visiblity/page loading issue

[aaronl]

Howdy,

I am trying to do something very simple. I have an init include at the top of my pages that sets a bunch of variables for the rest of the page (e.g., rootpaths, colors, etc). Those variables are referenced in other includes later down the page and also in plain php code mixed in with the html (that is, not just in includes). This works fine on my development server at home, but not on my live host server. Can someone tell me how to fix this? PHP would seem to be useless if variables were not visible to seperate blobs of code.

Thanks,

Aaron

[devinemke]

perhaps it has to do with absolute or relative paths for your includes

include ('/path/to/include/file.php');

is the path valid on both servers?