Weird PHP parsing issues

[DarthJay]

I am running PHP 4.4.2 on IIS 6. I am running into an issue that I have never seen before and I was hoping somebody might be able to give me some insight. Here goes.

I have a multilanguage site where I am using an include file to pull in the main navigation. The directory structure of the site is as follows:

root
root/menus
root/espanol
root/espanol/menus

Now on my main index.php file, I have an include that looks like this:

<?php
include("menus/menu_home.inc");
?>

However, when the page is parsed over the web, it is pulling randomly from either the "menus" or the "espanol/menus" directory. I am completely baffled by this behavior as I have run this site exactly how it is on 4 other webservers and have never experienced this before.

Any insight would be GREATLY appreciated....

[DarthJay]

Anyone have any ideas?

[EricC]

i've not experienced this behaviour personally, but in looking over the user notes at php.net/include i see some people have run into a similar situation and with a few different ways of handling includes.

good luck. 🙂

[DarthJay]

How funny -- I was reading through that at the exact same time you posted this.

😃

Looks like my include files needed to be coded as:

<?php
include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/menus/menu_home.inc");
?>

instead of

<?php
include("menus/menu_home.inc");
?>

Thanks for you help!!