[Resolved] [Resolved] [Resolved] Include question...

[tom_s]

Hi, I can't seem to get this working...

My script is in:

/forums/test/admin/file.php

and I want to include the following file...

/forums/core/admin/file.php

---

I've tried

include "../core/admin/file.php";

But it doesn't work, what is the correct syntax?

[drawmack]

include "../../core/admin/file.php";

[jad]

simplest way is to have a paths in your conf file
something like this
config.php
<?php
$admin_files = "/home/blah/public_html/forums/test/admin/";
?>
then include the config.php in your files
and use include like
<?php
include("$admin_files/file.php");
?>

[tom_s]

I haven't tried jad's suggestion. But when I use the extra ../ in the include statment like this:

<?PHP

require_once "../../core/admin/index.php";

?>

I get the following error:

Warning: main(../../core/admin/index.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/httpdocs/forums/yetanothertest/admin/index.php on line 3

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '../../core/admin/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /var/www/httpdocs/forums/yetanothertest/admin/index.php on line 3

The file structure is as follows:

/
/forums/
/forums/yetanothertest
/forums/yetanothertest/admin
/forums/yetanothertest/admin/index.php

/forums/core/
/forums/core/admin
/forums/core/admin/index.php

The content of the yetanothertest admin index.php is the require_once statment, which is supposed to display the 'core' admin index.php file... Did that make any sense?

[jad]

try it . it will kick your nightmare out

[tom_s]

Hi jad, your suggestion works. However theres still a problem. I applied the same concept to files in another directory, but it doesn't work...

config.php

// Define the location of third level files
$admin_files = '/var/www/httpdocs/forums/core/admin';
$include_files = '/var/www/httpdocs/forums/core/includes';
$core_files = '/var/www/httpdocs/forums/core';
$en_language_files = '/var/www/httpdocs/forums/core/language/lang_english';

I'd like:
/var/www/httpdocs/forums/yetanothertest/admin/index.php

to display:
/var/www/httpdocs/forums/core/admin/index.php

The core admin index includes another file:
/var/www/httpdocs/forums/yetanothertest/language/lang_english/lang_main.php

Which includes the relevant file in the core directory.

However, this is the error I get when going to the admin index.php in the yetanothertest/admin folder's:

Warning: main(/lang_main.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/httpdocs/forums/yetanothertest/language/lang_english/lang_main.php on line 4

This is the content of lang main in yetanothertest:

<?PHP

require_once "../config.php";
require_once "$en_language_files/lang_main.php";

?>

I confused myself trying to exlain that. Basicly, what I'm trying to do is have the files in yetanothertest display the file in the core directory.

[tom_s]

I've managed to resolve the issue another way... I got really fed up, and although I didn't think it would be any diferent, I replaced the variable with the actual path /var/www/ etc... and it worked 🙂

I'm not going to mark the topic as resolved yet, just going to try out everything first.

Thanks for all the help,

• Tom

[tom_s]

This is unrelated to the orginal topic, but not really worth starting a new topic for.

How can I copy (not move):

/forums/source/file.php

to

/forums/whatever/

I've searched google, and I get confused when viewing the tutorials that it finds 😕

I've never used any of the ftp or file handling features of php before.

Thanks,

• Tom