Simple PHP Include, sure.

idleprattler

When helping solve my problem, please assume I'm a crazy old grandmother who doesn't know how to turn on her computer.

Here's the deal: I downloaded some fancy PHP calender business that required me to make a database and blah blah blah. I read the README file and the installation went smoothly and everything was working right on target.

I got to this part and had some trouble.

10. To show the calendar on your website, simply open the file where you want the calendar to
show, and add a simple php include, pointing to your calendar files.
If you want to show the events as a list, use something like this:
<? include("/path/to/PHPCalendar/list.php")?>
If you want to show the events as a traditional calendar, use something like this:
<? include("/path/to/PHPCalendar/calendar.php")?>
The same goes for the year and birthdays calendars.

I stuck that bold "simple" PHP include in my file and the calendar never showed up. (<? include("http://www.idealprattle.com/calendar/calendar.php")?>)

I can see the calendar when I load that address alone AND I can see the calendar with my website's skin when I log out of my admin panel for the calendar. What's the deal with that?

Here's my website: http://www.idealprattle.com - NO CALENDAR

Here's the magic URL where it shows up: http://www.idealprattle.com/calendar/admin.php?action=logout

Oh, gasp, calendar!

What on earth is going on?

ps. If you wanna suggest a better calendar option on the side, I'm open. All this trouble for a calendar I'm not even crazy about. But I want one and I'm gonna learn how to use it if it kills me.

tommynanda

post some code thats around include() statment... And also be sure that your page is .php(depends on your host,parsing html for PHP) .php is better than .html if you haven already done that...

POST CODE

TommYNandA

idleprattler

<div id="Sidebar-l">
<div class="Sidetitle">
<h4>{$locale->tr("calendar")}</h4>
</div>
<p><font size="1">This is supposed to be a PHP calendar, but it's not working
and it's ticking me off.</font>
<? include("http://www.idealprattle.com/calendar/calendar.php")?>
</p>

Is that enough? The page is a header.template from pLog.

tommynanda

your pages arent being parsed by PHP, did u change them to .php

Not sure if this works but try changing
<? include(...) ?>
to
<?php include(...); ?>

When I saw your HTML source your <? include() ?> showsup this means... its not parsed by PHP... strange

idleprattler

I didn't change anything to .php. When I downloaded the calendar .zip, it unzipped several .php files. I edited those pages and uploaded them to the server. The code below is inside the template for whatever came out of the download from pLog. It's not .php or .html. It's just "header.template"

Changed it to this and I still got the same result.

<div class="Sidetitle">
<h4>{$locale->tr("calendar")}</h4>
</div>
<p><font size="1">This is supposed to be a PHP calendar, but it's not working
and it's ticking me off.</font>
<?php include("http://www.idealprattle.com/calendar/calendar.php");? >
</p>
<div class="Sidetitle">

Are you saying that for a PHP include to work, it has to be inside a .php?

The_Chancer

If you have a file saved as .html, and the webserver isn't setup to send .html files through the PHP parser - then any PHP code inside the HTML document will come out as plain text, not parsed by PHP.

To overcome this - ensure that ALL files that have PHP in them have a .php extension as default.

Just like changing a .xls (Excel document) to a .txt file - The correct program will not be opened and the result will not be as expected.