External Files Help?

[Filter]

im new to php and a picked up a book.
Now the problem that im having is trying to use external files here is the the "constant"

http://t3chtr0nicsplace.110mb.com/layout.html

And this is where i get an error when i try to include the header and footer into the index page

http://t3chtr0nicsplace.110mb.com/templates/index.php

or
Warning: require(templates/header.html) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/110mb.com/t/3/c/h/t/r/0/n/t3chtr0nicsplace/htdocs/templates/index.php on line 3

<?php // script 8.5 - index.php

require ('templates/header.html');  # need the header

// leave the PHP section to display lots of HTML
?>

<div id="leftcontent">
	<h1>Welcome to the Z3d0 Clan Fan Site</h1>
	<p>Heres a whole lotta text.  </p>
	<p>Heres a whole lotta text.  </p>
	</div>

<?php // return to PHP
require ('template/footer.html'); // need the footer
?>	

[bradgrafelman]

Is the folder name template or templates? You've used both in the above code snippet - double check the directory name.

[NogDog]

Also, from the error message it would appear that the index.php file is in the "templates" directory, so you could just include/require the file name with no directory name in front of it. Alternatively, to ensure the require will work regardless of the location of the calling file, you could do:

require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/templates/header.html';

[Filter]

im still getting errors even tho i got rid of one