Browser Compatibility & includes

greeneel

Hey Folks,

I have a weird problem with displaying an image as the background of a table using includes in the safari browser. What im trying to do is this:

I have a site and wanted to have an advertisement image on each page but for abit more speed i wanted to make that image the background image of a table thats in the file the include calls adve*****.php. In each page i use the following script to call the file.

<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/adve*****.php'; ?>

I am using include to put the following code into the pages:

<html>
<head>
<title>Adve*****</title>
</head>
<body>
<table align="center" width="991" height="140" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td background="http://www.homes.com/images/adve*****.jpg"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Now when I load the pages online the pages load properly in Firefox 2.0.0.14 & IE7 BUT for some reason the adve*****.php file doesn't load in Safari 3.1.1 at all. Mind you I have my navigation, header & footer setup this way, i use includes to call them ..

Any ideas im abit stumped.

leatherback

Hi,

As the manual points out:

$_SERVER is an array containing information such as headers, paths, and script locations. The entries in this array are created by the web server. There is no guarantee that every web server will provide any of these; servers may omit some, or provide others not listed here. That said, a large number of these variables are accounted for in the » CGI 1.1 specification, so you should be able to expect those.

So.. You cannot rely on all variables to be set at all times in the $_SERVER superglobal.

greeneel

Hi leatherback,

I get what your saying but i have tried using:

 <?php include 'http://www.domainname.com/includes/header.php'?>

 <?php include('http://www.domainname.com/includes/nav.php');?

 <?php include 'includes/header.php'?>

<?php require_once('includes/header.php'); ?>

and the pages never gets the includes files called. any other advice?

leatherback

this is the correct format:

require('includes/header.php');
require_once('includes/header.php');

If they do not work, then you might not have the correct relative path.

Ideally you refer to them based on the full server path, by for instance including a path-prefix to your paths.