include files

irishgirl2004

Hi,
I am doing the following

include "headers.inc";
Print_header ();


[code=php]

and in the headers.inc fil i have

[code=php]
function Print_header () {
echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">\n";
echo "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">\n";
echo "<head>\n";
echo "\n";
echo "<title>PharmacyOne</title>\n";
}
[code=php]


when i load my page, it says the Print_header function is undefined?

the files are in the same directory

am i doing something silly? it seems to attempt to output the headers.inc file when it is included aswell?



thanks

irishgirl2004

a silly mistake!!!! for got to put the <? and ?> in the include file.....

smacks head

justsomeone

Hey there Irish!

if you're going to call your include files *.inc, make sure that either

a) your webserver is configured to interpret *.inc as a php page
or
b) store all your include files outside of the web tree

Otherwise a miscreant could dwonload any php source in a .inc file as raw text. This might reveal database connection strings etc...

Rodney_H_

irishgirl2004 wrote:

include "headers.inc";
Print_header ();

and in the headers.inc fil i have

function Print_header () {
echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">\n";
echo "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">\n";
echo "<head>\n";
echo "\n";
echo "<title>PharmacyOne</title>\n";
}

It would be so much easier to rewrite your header.inc file to:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>PharmacyOne</title>

without escaping it, rename it to header.php , and then just including it, or requiring it as such:

require "header.php";

And be done with it.