[RESOLVED] problem with vars getting into included file

steamPunk

I'm having a problem with defined variables being available in an included file

the set-up is this :

I have a parent file "index.php" which includes a config file and a file containing the html meta tags

the meta keywords etc are defined in the config file like this

define("META_KEYWORDS", "bla bla bla");

and i can echo them in the index.php file no problem using

echo META_KEYWORDS;

however, in the file containing the html meta tags ("inc_head.php") the variable META_KEYWORDS won't echo properly. The file is included ok, but when i look at the source code i see

<meta name="keywords" content="META_KEYWORDS">

where the php code is

<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo META_KEYWORDS; ?>">

so what's happening is that the meta tags file is being included, but the variables are not echoing properly

has anyone got any idea why this could be ?

thanks

schwim

can we see how you're including the file? Maybe try putting an echo in that page, just to make sure that the page is getting loaded correctly.

thanks,
json

steamPunk

the include is definitely being included becauase the html it contains is included in the parent page

here's the relevant bit of the parent page - the first four lines of code that include the two files

<?php session_start();
require "gestion/inc_config.php";
$pageTitle = " - unplusbio.org";
require SITE_ROOT.SITE_FOLDER."inc_head.php" ; ?>

here's the relevant part of "inc_config.php" :

// basepath for site
define("SITE_ROOT", "http://www.unplusbio.org/");
define("SITE_FOLDER", "manger-bio/");

// basepath for dynamic images
define("BASEPATH_SI", "restauration-bio-images/");
define("BASEPATH_DI", "manger-bio-dyn/");

// global meta keywords
define("META_KEYWORDS", "bla bla bla");

and here's the "inc_head.php" file

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><?php echo KEYWORD_UPPER.$pageTitle; ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo META_DESCRIPTION; ?>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo META_KEYWORDS; ?>">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo SITE_ROOT.SITE_FOLDER; ?>unplusbio.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo SITE_ROOT.SITE_FOLDER; ?>unplusbio.js"></script>
</head>

so... the variable META_KEYWORDS is defined in inc_config.php and is therefore included in the index.php, no probs. but it doesn't then get transferred as a CONSTANT to the inc_head.php include

here's the source code that is returned by the server :

<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>KEYWORD_UPPER</title>
<meta name="description" content="META_DESCRIPTION">
<meta name="keywords" content="META_KEYWORDS">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="SITE_ROOTSITE_FOLDERunplusbio.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="SITE_ROOTSITE_FOLDERunplusbio.js"></script>
</head>

i think it's some kind of scope problem but i can't figure it out

schwim

That's why I wanted to see it. Change your site root from a URL to an absolute server path (or create a new variable for the server path) and let us know how it works for you then.

thanks,
json

steamPunk

you hit the nail on the head - i just needed to remove the site root and use

require SITE_FOLDER."inc_head.php" ;

now it works perfectly - you learn something every day !

thanks

schwim

Hi there,

any files included via URL will include the data in the file without being parsed. For PHP to be parsed, it must be included via server path.

It's like the only thing I know about PHP. You lucked the hell out, man 😉

thanks,
json