[RESOLVED] Regarding Php Include

lordkadmus

we recently decided to upgrade our website (more like upgrading the static old pages to the dynamic content). So, we have like 500 old html pages which we need to integrate using php.

The template with headers , footers , etc using php includes is working but the problem arises when i try to include the html file.

Before including the html I use include path with set_ini to declare the include path for html as "./fo1/boo2/" (Using the dot in the beginning to tell the system that it is relative to the root directory).

Then I used include ($thehtmlfile); which worked. The html file was included, however, the problem arises when the html file itself links to images,these image files are actually in a separate subdirectory like this "./fo1/boo2/images/" .

Instead, the html file tries to find the images folder in the root directory!!!! I have tried using chdir but it doesn't work.

I used get file contents and another method to get the content of the whole html file and then i used stringreplace to replace the href=images text within the html with the path + images text as the href. It worked but it is infact a nightmare for the server!. Parsing every file and replacing strings thats just killing the server and since we have shared hosting from a hosting provider I think they can take my website offline if this amount of activity continues!

So there is no way around using php include or even server side includes. Can any one pleaseee help me out with the code, is there some correction, alteration,deletion and addition I must make?

cahva

I dont know if I understood the problem completely but if the image folder is "images" in html files you could just set the base href to the directory you want in the header template.

<head>
<base href="http://yourdomain.com/fo1/boo2/" />
</head>

Then when you use:

<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="logo" />

.. it will actually get you:

<img src="http://yourdomain.com/fo1/boo2/images/logo.gif" alt="logo" />

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp

lordkadmus

well base href doesn't work because the htmls file i am trying to include have their own headers and are not plain text. In easy terms they come with their head , body, etc terms! I know its kinda bad programming technique but for now We have to survive with it later we will rip the tags.

So any other ideas?

bradgrafelman

Do you need to set the include path in the first place? Why not just specify the absolute/relative path in the call to include()?

lordkadmus wrote:
(Using the dot in the beginning to tell the system that it is relative to the root directory).

Not sure what you mean... "./" means "current directory" (e.g. the directory where the script is being executed), not root directory.

lordkadmus

It is a bit startling to see how most complex of problems have simplest solutions! Nevertheless, i was wrong to assume that "./" is the root directory it is indeed the directory where the script is being executed. I had to use the double dot to refer to the root directory "../" .

Now the script is working and including the images too! Thanks cahva and bradgrafelman ! Before joining this form i had a try with the php channel at irc and man they are freaks, i later learnt that the channel is not associated with php.net .

bradgrafelman

Just to clarify, by "root" directory, you actually mean the root of your website, correct? When you say "root directory", I think of the root of the hard drive.

If you wanted to start from the root of your website, you could do something like:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/path/to/file.php');

Either way, glad you got it working.