include() not including?

ktonkin

Thanks for this forum. Hopefully I am just missing something very obvious. I have a menu that I want to put on each page, called menu.php. Both menu.php and test.php are in the root directory. The page test.php diplays correctly, but no menu appears. Here is the code on menu.php:

<p style="margin-top:20px;"><a href="index.html" id="home_tab">Home</a></p>
<p><a href="about.html" id="about_tab">About Us</a></p>
<p><a href="products.html" id="products_tab">Products</a></p>
<p><a href="browse.php" id="order_tab">Online Catalog</a></p>
<p><a href="techniques.html" id="techniques_tab">Do It Yourself</a></p>
<p><a href="conversions.html" id="conversions_tab">Conversions</a></p>
<p><a href="faqs.html" id="questions_tab">Questions</a></p>
<p><a href="contact.html" id="contact_tab">Contact Us</a></p>
<p><a href="links.html" id="links_tab">Links</a></p>

This the the code on the page I am calling it into, test.php:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="testpage2.css" />
</head>

Thanks.
Kari

Jack_McSlay

can you post what shows up when you view the page source on the browser?

ucffool

ktonkin wrote:
<?php include 'menu.php'; ?>

This should be:

<?php include('menu.php'); ?>

ktonkin

Interesting - this is what comes up when I view page source on test.php:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

</head>

<body>

</div></div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
</html>

So it is not picking up the php at all then?
As for the code, I did try include ('menu.php') - with parenthesis. Also with "" and (""). So far none have worked.
Thanks.

Jack_McSlay

Nope.
It's likely Apache is not properly configured for PHP. Better check the httpd.conf to make sure everything is right.

ucffool

ktonkin wrote:
So it is not picking up the php at all then?

You nailed it. Check with your host or the server's configuration as Jack stated.

ktonkin

Thanks. Yep, it was an Apache issue. Not sure why it is suddenly not running on my mac, but will fix that. I put it out on the server and it worked great. Thanks for the heads up - saved me from wondering what I was doing wrong!

kterry

This can also be caused if you open the file "locally" without accessing the web server. It wont interpret the code as php is accessed by the webserver making a request to it.

bradgrafelman

Don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is).

EDIT: Also, note that if your "menu" include is strictly HTML, there's no need to use include() (or a .php file extension) - you should simply use [man]readfile/man on a plain .html file.