[Resolved] Include Error

David03

Okay, I've got my site using Includes on basically every page so it looks like:

<?php include("http://www.mydomain.com/begin.html"); ?>

<?php echo("This is my page content."); ?>

<?php include("http://www.mydomain.com/end.html"); ?>

I also have a page included in "begin.html" called "common_links.php" which is used to store variables and functions for some of my longer URLs. I include it in my pages the same way as the above except I use a relative path, because it bugs out on me if I don't. Every page in my root directory works just fine, so thats good.

However, when I go to a page that is in another folder like "/town/city/index.php" all the PHP functions I used in my "begin.html" produce an error because they are undefined it says. Is there anyway to fix this problem?

Installer

It sounds like the files aren't being included at all. Try using "require" and see if you get a fatal error.

David03

I already tried "include" and "require". Both give me the error.

bradgrafelman

Try using [man]readfile/man instead of [man]include/man if you're just outputting HTML.

David03

Well I do have some PHP statements within the .html page because in the end it is all parsed in PHP. But I'll try that and post back.

[added]
Yeah, it reads the file in but doesn't translate the PHP code I put in them.

bradgrafelman

You mentioned you are using relative paths, and that scripts in other directories dont work.

I would suggest trying to use absolute paths. If the current file structure/setup isnt going to be drastically changed, absolute paths seem like the best solution for this situation. I could be entirely wrong, however.

If anyone has a differeing opinion/comment/suggestion, please, feel free to post!

David03

Someone told me to just change the begin.html to begin.php which worked. I didn't think it would because I had a php tag in begin.html to show the current date and it worked, it just didn't support my functions for some reason. Thanks everyone!