Problems with include() and $_GET[''] !!

hsn

Hi all,

I'm using Php 5 on windows. I faced two strange problems under the following situation:

I have a main page called index.php. In this page, I have included a menu using include() function:

 include($menu);

This menu is under a sub folder not in the main folder of the web page.

Problem1:
I tried to include another file (func.php) in some other sub folder in this menu page. It included the file for me but none of variables on that included file were visibile in the menu page! I had a class in func.php and I tried to create a new instance of it in menu page but it did not recognize it at all!

Problem2:
The $_GET[] does not work in the menu page which is included in index.php. I have some parameters in my URL but they are not accessibile in this included page.

Please anyone could help me with this?
😕

paulnaj

Hi,

I think we need some more details ...

1) What's the folder structure?

2) $menu contains what exactly? Is it a filepath? Something like ...

include('./includes/menu.php');

3) In which order are you including the files?

4) How is $_GET being used in the two includes?

Paul 🙂

hsn

Ok here are some more details:

Folders are as follows:

htdocs -> project -> parser
-> collage

parser and collage are two folders in parser which is a folder in the root directory htdocs.

index.php is located at htdocs.
It includes $menu which is 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/project/collage/menu.php';

Then, this menu.php which is under htdocs->project->collage, includes a file called parser.php under htdocs->project->parser like this:

 include 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/project/parser/parser.php';

There is a class located at parser.php which is not visible in menu.php at all! Also variables are not accessible!

As for $GET[], I'm using it in menu.php. I wanna get a variable called $GET['p'] which is passed to the URL.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by hsn

 include 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/project/parser/parser.php';

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But that's not a file name, it's a URL. They're different things. Using a URL will cause PHP to request parser.php from the web server, the web server will run PHP on parser.php, and send the results back.

If you want the file, it would be something like

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/project/parser/parser.php';

Since collage/ is already in project/,

include '../parser/parser.php';

would be enough to find the file (up one to their common ancestor - project/ - and then down again to the parser).

hsn

Oh,
I was not aware of this! Thanks a lot man. Now it works fine.

But what about $_GET['p'] in menu.php?!

paulnaj

Ok, try this at the top of your index page ...

<?php 

echo '<hr><strong>Before:</strong>: <pre>';	
print_r($_GET);	
echo '</pre>';

// Assuming that this is the correct path from index.php
include('./project/collage/menu.php');

echo '<hr><strong>After:</strong>: <pre>';	
print_r($_GET);	
echo '</pre>';

?>

What happens?

Paul.

PS. I'm assuming that there aren't any other includes that need to come before the menu

hsn

No paul this is not my problem...

The problem is when I use $_GET['p'] in menu.php and p is passed to index.php!

paulnaj

Please, if you ask me for advice, then at least try my suggestion before questioning it yourself. If you knew what was going on, you wouldn't be asking for help!

I know that you want to use $GET in menu, but I want to establish that menu has no effect on the $GET array.

You haven't shown us any code so I'm having to guess. This was one way to cut through and see if anything unusual was happening.

Paul

hsn

I apologize, I thought that you didn't undrestand my question. I'm sorry.

I tried it. After and before were the same. I think that the problem is in menu.php the URL is something different than that of index.php. When including menu.php I passed $_GET['p'] to it and now it's visible there.