simple include question

[mactoph]

Hello -
I am using an include statement to pull in the header of a website and would like to do an absolute http URL to do so, however when I use it like:

<?php include ("http://www.website.com/includes/footer.php"); ?>

Then it doesn't bring anything in... ??

However, if I do a relative URL then it works fine. I would like to be able to use an absolute URL so I can use the same file at different levels- any idea how to do that?

Thanks,
christopher

[laserlight]

Probably because of the way include() works.

In any case, you should avoid using the whole URL, and rather play around with .. and . in the path, e.g.

../includes/footer.php