php includes

evilsanta

Im so happy, I have had my forum and everything coded for a while now and ive just been able to get webspace, the forum works great but now something isnt working, and it should be the easiest thing in the world...

Right now I have a header.php and a footer.php file, each page on my root (where the header/footer is located) looks like this...


<?php include("HEADER.php"); ?>

Page info here.

<?php include("FOOTER.php"); ?>

But now im at the point where I want folders to organize the site, I created a folder inside my root and put an index page inside, heres what the index file looks like.


<?php include('..\HEADER.php'); ?>

Page info here.

<?php include('..\FOOTER.php'); ?>

Only it doesnt work, I just get a white blank page, any suggestions?

Houdini

slash is backwards

<?php include('..\HEADER.php'); ?>//closing is not necessary here unless the below is html

Page info here.

<?php include('..\FOOTER.php'); ?>

change

<?php
 include('../HEADER.php'); 

Page info here.

include('../FOOTER.php'); ?>

evilsanta

Woops sorry, looks like when I typed it in the reply box I got it wrong, my actual code is along the lines of what you have... Thanks for the reply though. 🙂

Any suggestions? Its just a blank page, if i go to View Source I get nothing.

Houdini

The code you are showing is to include an index file in a directory that is different than the HEADER.php and FOOTER.php? If they are all in the same directory then lose the ../ or use absolute addressing like include("http://yoursite.com/HEADER.php); and include("http://yoursite.com/FOOTER.php);

esukf

Have you changed the permissions for the folders you created?

evilsanta

Yeah, its in a different directory, I have an index file with the Header and Footer files in my root directory and I include them without the "../" which works just fine, however what im having trouble with is getting an index that is in a sub folder to include the Header/Footer files... at least I think its not working, if it wasnt I would get an error correct? B/c im just getting a blank page...

If it helps here is my directory... well basically

Images
Index.php -works fine, as its in the root directory with the header/footer files.
Header.php
Footer.php
Downloads
- Index.php - doesnt work, use ../ and I get a blank page.

Hope that helps.

evilsanta

esukf wrote:
Have you changed the permissions for the folders you created?

Yes, I may have messed around with it earlier, and its a Linux host, what should the chmod/permissions for the folder/file be?

Houdini

They are all in the same directory so use

<?php
include('Header.php');

Page info here.

include('Footer.php'); ?>

from the example you showed of the files in the root_directory.

evilsanta

Yeah but its inside the downloads folder, doesnt that effect it? Or can I call things that are in a root directory without using "../" ... well either way I tried it and I got this error.


Warning: main(HEADER.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/games/index.php on line 1

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'HEADER.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/games/index.php on line 1
Page info here.
Warning: main(FOOTER.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/games/index.php on line 5

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'FOOTER.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/games/index.php on line 5

esukf

try chmod 755 and see if that helps

evilsanta

Sadly it didnt work... :bemused:

Houdini

file names are case sensitive you showed all files mentioned above in the same folder (directory) so you would'nt use ../ the root directory is public_html on some servers if you had a folder like downloads whose URL were http://yoursite.com/downloads and the index.php were there and the Header and Footer (in whatever case they really are) are in the root say http://yoursite.com/Header.php then you would go back to the root by using the ../ because the index is currently in the downloads folder and to get back to root you use the ../

evilsanta

Sorry, I probably should have explained, this...

Downloads
- Index.php - doesnt work, use ../ and I get a blank page.

Is saying that the Index file is in the Downloads folder, and whenever I use the ../ nothing happens, its just a blank page... no error messages or anything...

Houdini

Mybe you beed to show some of the code for the Header.php and also the index.php to try and see what all is going on.
so your root looks like
header.php
footer.php
somefile.html
another.php
---------->downloads (different folder)
Index.php (or index.php)
test.php
azipfile.zip
ararfile.rar

evilsanta

Yup, thats my setup basically, heres my HEADER.php...

<?php
	//NOTES BY BRIAN @ hides error messages
	//BASICALLY THIS PART SHOULD GO AT THE TOP OF EVERY PAGE, ITS NOT IN THE HEADER
	//$phpbb_root_path = './forums/'; 

@define('IN_PHPBB', true); 
@$phpbb_root_path = './forums/'; 
global $phpbb_root_path;
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx); 
// 
// Start session management 
// 
@$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
global $userdata; 
@init_userprefs($userdata); 
// 
// End session management 
//


@$NEWPMS=$userdata['user_new_privmsg'];
@$RANK=$userdata['user_rank']; 
@$USER_POSTS=$userdata['user_posts'];
@$USER_AV=$userdata['user_avatar'];
@$USER_NAME=$userdata['username'];
@$sesid=$userdata['session_id'];
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>NZ</title>
<link href="newstyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var mouseOverColor = '666666';
var statusMessage = 'Welcome to Negative Zero';
window.status = statusMessage;

cellHigh = document.getElementsByTagName('TD');
for(ch=0;ch<cellHigh.length;ch++) {
if((cellHigh[ch].className=="windowbg2" && cellHigh[ch].width=="66%") || 

(cellHigh[ch].className=="windowbg" && cellHigh[ch].width=="48%")) {
if (cellHigh[ch].width=="48%") {var num=0;} else {var num=1;}
cellHigh[ch].onmouseover = 

function(){this.style.cursor='pointer';this.style.backgroundColor=mouseOverColor; 

window.status=this.getElementsByTagName('b')[0].innerHTML;};
cellHigh[ch].onmouseout = 

function(){this.style.backgroundColor=this.bgColor;window.status=statusMessage;};
cellHigh[ch].onclick = function(){location = this.getElementsByTagName('a')[num].href;};
}}
// -->
</script>

</head>
<body bgcolor="#E3E3E3">
<center>
<table width="99%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#000000" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="title2" height="22" colspan="3" style="padding: 3px;">

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="65%" valign="middle">
<b>Welcome to Negative Zero</b>

</td><td width="35%"><div align=center>



</font>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="headbox" height="100" colspan="3">
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="20" colspan="3" valign="middle" style="padding: 3px; background-image: url(images/gradient2.jpg);">

<menue bar>
<a href="http://www.nzgames.org/index.php">Home </a>
<a href="http://www.nzgames.org/forums/index.php"> Forums </a>
<a href="http://www.nzgames.org/games.php"> Games </a>
<a href="http://"> Articles </a>
<a href="http://"> Contact Us </a>


<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" colspan="5" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100%">



</tr>
</table>



<tr>
<td class="title" width="16%" style="padding: 3px;" valign="top">

<table border="0" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="title2" style="padding: 3px;">
<?php
	if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] ) 
	{ 
		echo("
			Welcome $USER_NAME
			");
	} 
	else 
	{ 
		echo('Login');
	}
?>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="title" width="100%" valign="top" style="padding: 4px;">
<?php
	if( $userdata['session_logged_in'] ) 
	{ 
			if ($USER_AV==NULL)
			{ //If the user doesnt have an avatar use a default one
				$USER_AV="images/noav.gif";
			}
		echo(" 
			<img src=$USER_AV><br>
			Posts: $USER_POSTS
			");
		if( $NEWPMS)
		{
			echo("
				<br><a href=forums/privmsg.php?folder=inbox&sid=$sesid>New PMs</a>
				");
		}
		else
		{
			echo("
				<br>No new <a href=forums/privmsg.php?folder=inbox&sid=$sesid>PMs</a>	
				");
		}
		echo("
			<br><a href=forums/profile.php?mode=editprofile&sid=$sesid>Edit profile</a><br> 
			<a href=forums/login.php?logout=true&sid=$sesid>Logout</a>
			");
	} 
	else 
	{ 
		echo('
	<form action="forums/login.php" method="post">
	Username: <input type="text" size="7"maxlength="25"name="username"><br>
	Password:&nbsp; <input type="password"size="7" maxlength="25" name="password"><br>
<input type="submit" value="login" name="login"><br>
	</f4orm>
	<b7r>Auto Login: <input type="checkbox" name="autologin" /><br>
<center>
<a href="forums/profile.php?mode=register">Register</a><br>
<a href="forums/profile.php?mode=sendpassword">Forgot Password</a>
 <br> 
</center>	
			');
}
?>
</table>

<address><font face="Verdana" size="1">&nbsp;</font></address>

<table border="0" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="title2" style="padding: 3px;">
Latest Topics
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="title" width="100%" height="150" valign="top" align="left">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.nzgames.org/forums/topics_anywhere.php?mode=show&f=a&n=10&jlp=y&a=y&s=y&l=y&m=y&h=asmpl&so=d&b=4&lpb=1&lpd=0&br=y&ch=15&chw=e&cl=new_style.css"></script>
</table>
<td class="title" width="67%" style="padding: 3px;" valign="TOP">

<table border="0" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="title2" style="padding: 3px;">
Main Content
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="title" width="100%" height="350" valign="top" align="left" style="padding: 5px;">

BTW I appreciate the help. 🙂

Also here is the Index page in my root that works


<?php include("HEADER.php"); ?>


Hello and welcom to Negative Zero.<br>

<table border="0" bgcolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="1">
<tr>
<td class="title" width="50%" valign="top" style="padding: 4px;">
<pre>
test

</pre>
</td>
</tr>

<br>
<br>



</table>


<?php include("FOOTER.php"); ?>

And the one thats in the downloads folder that doesnt work.

<?php include("../HEADER.php"); ?> 

Page info here. (HTML)

<?php include("../FOOTER.php"); ?>

Houdini

It looks like you have made major modifications to the phpBB2 forum, and you are supressing many errors, unsupress them the

@define('IN_PHPBB', true); 
@$phpbb_root_path = './forums/'; 
global $phpbb_root_path;
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

When modifying or writing a script do not use this as you can not know where your script is failing. also HEADER.php is not the same as Header.php or HeAdEr.php PHP if told to look for a file named HEADER.php unless you have named and saved a file as HEADER.php will not find it even though the spelling is the same. Filenames are case sensitive and must be accessed with e the exact case as they were named. If you have a file to include named HEADER.php and you use include("Header.php"); or include("header.php"); it will fail every time. I do not know your directory structure but it does not look like the standard phpBB2 file structure. You might have to use absolute addressing including the full URL unless you fully understand the directory structure. If HEADER.php is in the root directory then the absolute path and include would be include("http:yoursite.com/HEADER.php) and if there were another folder created named includes in the root directory then the path to it would be http://yoursite.com/includes/afile.php. So at the moment unless you call your files with an include without the proper case from files in other directories it would be hard to help you out much more. I have seen HEADER.php as well as Header.php so which is it?

evilsanta

Yeah, I referenced it as Header.php here, but in all my code its HEADER.php, Its currently not in the phpbb directory as its not a forum page, basically it displays a persons profile on every page... but the reason why I removed the error messages with @ is becuase otherwise I get this random error message that doesnt do any harm (so the people at the phpbb forum told me to just block it)... but I unblocked it, and yaay progress, I got this error message where before it was a blank page...

Warning: main(./forums/extension.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/HEADER.php on line 9

Warning: main(): Failed opening './forums/extension.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/HEADER.php on line 9

Warning: main(./forums/common.): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/HEADER.php on line 10

Warning: main(): Failed opening './forums/common.' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/HEADER.php on line 10

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: session_pagestart() in /home/content/n/e/g/negativezero/html/HEADER.php on line 14

Can this be fixed? Or should I attempt an absolute adress? (BTW I already tried an absolute adress, but it doesnt work, dont you have to declare something in the php to get it to work?)

Perhaps could it be that when I define these variables in HEADER.php...

	//$phpbb_root_path = './forums/'; 

@define('IN_PHPBB', true); 
@$phpbb_root_path = './forums/'; 
global $phpbb_root_path;
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 
@include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx); 
// 
// Start session management 
// 
@$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
global $userdata; 
@init_userprefs($userdata); 
// 
// End session management 
//


@$NEWPMS=$userdata['user_new_privmsg'];
@$RANK=$userdata['user_rank']; 
@$USER_POSTS=$userdata['user_posts'];
@$USER_AV=$userdata['user_avatar'];
@$USER_NAME=$userdata['username'];
@$sesid=$userdata['session_id'];
?>

It is getting a directory error there? Like when I include a file does it load things from the included files directory or the file that called it?

Houdini

When a file is included, parsing drops out of PHP mode and into HTML mode at the beginning of the target file, and resumes again at the end. For this reason, any code inside the target file which should be executed as PHP code must be enclosed within valid PHP start and end tags.

From the manual There is so much modification from looking at your HEADER.php with so many includes it is hard to really know what all is going on without looking at all the includes that are also included in that file, normally a header would just have alogo and some formatting and such to be included at the top of the page, but what all you have is calling so much more it would take agreat deal of study.

You will probably be best to develope this on your local PC then send it up after it has been debugged.

Houdini

I also noticed this

@$phpbb_root_path = './forums/';

try

$phpbb_root_path = './';

evilsanta

Basically all the header file does is start a session on PHPBB, that way people can leave the forums, browse my site and remain logged in, it also shows their profile, thats basically all those declarations in the Header file do, but when I changed $phpbb_root_path = './forums/'; to $phpbb_root_path = './'; something interesting happened to my index page that worked, it was blank... just like the one in the folder which means that the problem is caused by that specific declaration.

Is there any way I could use absolute adress?
As if I could just change

@$phpbb_root_path = './forums/';

@$phpbb_root_path = 'http://www.nzgames.org/forums/';

It would work, however the above code doesnt work, is there any way that I can get it to work? Or is there any way using "../" that i can get to the core root directory of my site reguardless of where it was called? Or maybe I could just declare the path as a variable at the top of every page before I include the header...

EDIT: Ok i tried my last idea of calling that path in every file before the include, and it works fine, the only downside is that I have to declare it on every new page, but its just one line... BTW thank you for your help 🙂, you have been very patient (as i know can be difficult when dealing with newbs 🙂 ).