[Resolved] Fatal Error

PoohStix

Hi There,

I wonder if there is anyone out there willing to give me advice. I have just started using PHP and am getting fatal errors on my very first and very simple project. I have created to files, "layout.php" and "index.php".

The code for layout.php is as follows:

<?php
function myheader($ptitle)
{
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>
      <!-- End Header and Begin Content -->
      <?php
      } // close myheader()
      function footer(){
      ?>
      <!-- End Content and Begin Footer -->
    </td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<?php
} //close footer()
?>

And the code for index.php is the following:

<?php
// include the layout file
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/layout.php';

// myheader function from layout.php
myheader();

// Content
echo "Welcome to my Website!";

// footer function from layout.php
footer();
?>

The error I am getting reads as follows:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: myheader() in .../test/index.php on line 6

Any useful advice or help from anyone would be very much appretiated.

Thanks!! (🙂)

PoohStix

Please any sort of help would be appreciated, if just a link to where I would find the answer.

Thanks

dopey

Looks as though the include is failing for some reason. You may want to change this to require() so the script will terminate if it fails to find layout.php. You should also get an error message indicating why

PoohStix

Thanks for your response.

I have tried that and I get this message:#

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/homepages/4/d105546165/htdocs/layout.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/4/d105546165/htdocs/test/index.php on line 3

What does it mean. I cannot find anywhere where it tells you how to sort of decode these errors.

Regards.

dopey

For some reason, php can't open '/homepages/4/d105546165/htdocs/layout.php' It may not exist or the webserver may not have read permission for that file.

If layout.php is in the same directory as index.php, then you should be able to use:

require( './layout.php' );

PoohStix

Brilliant!!!

Thanks Dopey.

There are obviously some issues with my file permissions which I need to resolve in my configuration, but that last bit of code you gave has done the trick! Thank you