Making a better looking form

Toadums

Hey...Im not sure If I have to use php to do this...but I cant seem to make it work in html very well...

So what i want is to make my form ... less columnar and more like a real form (more than 1 field on a line and just neater...better looking)

as you can see... it isnt going well 😛 there are just nasty spaces everywhere when I try: my ghetto form

If you know what i could do/read up on to fix this let me know ^_

Oh also, how come when I use the include() function, i cant enter a url? such as:

<?php include("www.google.com"); ?>

I was reading the documentation on it and it said soemthing about using file paths...but the thing is, all the different pages I have that I want to have the same header (the file I want them to all include is like a naviagation thingy with links to different forms and the logo).

How would I do this? do i have to move all my php files into the same directory??

Thanks,
Paul

scrupul0us

From the manual

<?php

/* This example assumes that www.example.com is configured to parse .php
* files and not .txt files. Also, 'Works' here means that the variables
* $foo and $bar are available within the included file. */

// Won't work; file.txt wasn't handled by www.example.com as PHP
include 'http://www.example.com/file.txt?foo=1&bar=2';

// Won't work; looks for a file named 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2' on the
// local filesystem.
include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

$foo = 1;
$bar = 2;
include 'file.txt';  // Works.
include 'file.php';  // Works.

?>

Toadums

nope..still doesnt work...

Ive tried:

include("nav.php");
include("http://pdem.mattwatson.info/nav.php");
include("pdem.mattwatson.info/nav.php);

and the only one that works the first one only if the nav.php is in the same directory...

if it is worth anything, here is the error i get:

Warning: include(/nav.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pdem/pdem.mattwatson.info/Timesheet/REItimesheet.php on line 32

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/nav.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/pdem/pdem.mattwatson.info/Timesheet/REItimesheet.php on line 32

and if it is a url, then add this 3rd error message:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://pdem.mattwatson.info/Timesheet/nav.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/pdem/pdem.mattwatson.info/Timesheet/REItimesheet.php on line 32
Name:

Hope I can clear this up >.< lol thanks

edit: btw, is there anyways to fix my problem i was having with my form?

NogDog

To include a file from another host you need to use a full URL, e.g. include "http://www.google.com/";, but this will only work if your PHP configuration has the allow_url_fopen setting enabled.

As far as local files, starting the path with a "/" does not mean the web document root directory as it does in HTML, it means (on a Linux/UNIX sytem) the root of the current logical disk. If you want to include a file relative to the web document root, you can do something like:

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

Toadums

NogDog;10917258 wrote:

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

omg, yay thanks!! 😃DDD Now I dont have to have 10 different nav.php's that I have to change individually each time I want to test something new 😛