PHP include attempt

Dobedobedo

Hi... after countless hours I'm STILL a newbie and now I've come here for help...
I'm a web designer NOT a programmer, maybe that's part of my problem 😉
I'm trying to add a SIMPLE PHP include (text and image) with PHP on the hosting server...
#1 do I need to have the server scripts in a "special" folder?

#2 do all the HTML pages and the include page (bottom.php) need to be in the same folder as the PHP scripts, ALL with the PHP extension?

#3 my lame attempts error out with "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in..." What could I be doing wrong??? All I've included on the HTML page is <?php include("bottom.php"); ?>

All help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

dagon

1 -no
2 -no and maybe

3 paste the exact error, it could be the containing page or it could be bottom.php

paste the line and the one above and below the line specified in the error message.

NogDog

Can you copy-and-paste the entire error message here? It will include info on the file and line number of that file where the error was detected, then we'll probably need to see that file (or at least a portion of that file for at least a few lines up to and including the error line).

PS: if/when you paste any code from the offending file here, please put it between [noparse]

and

[/noparse] tags.

Dobedobedo

NogDog wrote:
Can you copy-and-paste the entire error message here? It will include info on the file and line number of that file where the error was detected, then we'll probably need to see that file (or at least a portion of that file for at least a few lines up to and including the error line).

PS: if/when you paste any code from the offending file here, please put it between [noparse]
 and 
[/noparse] tags.

ERROR MESSAGE: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/whopaint/public_html/bottom.php on line 1"

CONTAINER CODE:

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

HTML PAGE FOR INCLUDE:

<HTML><p class="small">Here's the text and picture to be inserted.<br />
  <img src="jungle.jpg" alt="jungle" width="535" height="338" /></p></HTML>

Where "should" the php script be when trying to do this type of include?

THANKS!

NogDog

The error is telling you that the problem is in line 1 of the bottom.php file, so that's what we need to see to debug it.

Dobedobedo

So close! I changed line 1 to read <?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?> and that worked... but... my image still isn't visable... I know it's supposed to be "relative to the document" so to keep it simple I've got the image in the same folder as the pages... what am I doing wrong now??

Dobedobedo

I don't know how... but it works! and XHTML validates too!!!!!!😃

Thanks a heap!