php include issue - not responding

[loweauto]

I am trying to implement a contact form, and the instructions to do so are found here: http://westworldvideos.com/contact/help/

I cannot get past the first step: "Include the 'contact-script.php' file in the page area where you want to see the contact form."

It tells me to use the following code:

<?php
include '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com/contact-script.php';
?>

But I'm not sure if this is right. What is that "/path/to/public_html/" part?

The way my site works is like this:

index.php file opens a layout.html file, where there's an include to include the content depending on "index.php?go=contact", for example, and the contact.html resides in root/html/contact.html, and it's just the sheer content. Perhaps this is causing the problem?

This is index.php for your interest:

<?php 

$go = "index" ; 

if ($_GET["go"])
	$go = $_GET["go"] ;

$body = "html/{$go}.html" ;
$head = "html/_{$go}.html" ;

if (!file_exists($body)) {	
	$body = "html/index.html" ; 
}

if (!file_exists($head)) {
	$head = "html/_index.html" ;
}

$CONTENT = implode('', file($body)) ;
$HEAD = implode('', file($head)) ;

include "layout.html" ;

?>

As you noticed, the contact.html I'm trying to implement the php code in isn't a .php file, but I have added the following into htaccess, and it works to put php in other html files:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

What do you think the problem is?

I hope to hear from you!

[BIOSTALL]

Your problem is with the first line:

include '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com/contact-script.php';

The author has put '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com/' as a placeholder for you to put a relative link in here based on your actual site structure.

If contact-script.php is in the same directory as the file you are trying to include it from try this:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']"/contact-script.php");

The $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable contains the '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com' replacement.

Let me know if you need any further help or if the above doesn't work.

Good luck

[loweauto]

BIOSTALL;10949172 wrote:

Your problem is with the first line:

include '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com/contact-script.php';

The author has put '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com/' as a placeholder for you to put a relative link in here based on your actual site structure.

If contact-script.php is in the same directory as the file you are trying to include it from try this:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']"/contact-script.php");

The $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable contains the '/path/to/public_html/yourwebsite.com' replacement.

Let me know if you need any further help or if the above doesn't work.

Good luck

thanks for your help!

i tried that, and still nothing
i looked in the source code in my browser, and the php code just shows there... pretty strange, what could that mean?

[BIOSTALL]

Is the 'include' code within a PHP page? (ie. has an extension of .php) and within <?php ?> tags?

[loweauto]

the url of the test site where i'm trying it is: http://karmera.de/index.php?go=shop

if you want to have a look

[loweauto]

BIOSTALL;10949174 wrote:

Is the 'include' code within a PHP page? (ie. has an extension of .php) and within <?php ?> tags?

i'm not sure whether it counts as being in a .php page (see my explenation for how the site's set up), but i set the htaccess up so that .html files pick up php in them (the code is in my first post)

[BIOSTALL]

Sorry, I must have skipped over that bit (been a long day) :-P Two things:

1) Try changing:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

To:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

2) I missed a fullstop out on my example (sorry). Should be as follows:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']"/contact-script.php"); 

Fingers crossed 🙂

[BIOSTALL]

The .htaccess is in the root directory of your site too I presume? A .htaccess file will only work for the directory it is in and any subdirectories of that directory.

[loweauto]

BIOSTALL;10949177 wrote:

Sorry, I must have skipped over that bit (been a long day) :-P Two things:

1) Try changing:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

To:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

2) I missed a fullstop out on my example (sorry). Should be as follows:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']"/contact-script.php"); 

Fingers crossed 🙂

thank you for your effort! 🙂

regarding the htaccess, yes, it's in the root '/' directory..

and i changed it, but no success... still shows in the html code

also, i dont notice the difference in the code u wrote before, and now? where should the fullshop be?)

thanks 🙂

[BIOSTALL]

I'm really not with it today am I? :-P Should be:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/contact-script.php");

I'll have a look into the .htaccess issue 🙂

[loweauto]

BIOSTALL;10949181 wrote:

I'm really not with it today am I? :-P Should be:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/contact-script.php");

I'll have a look into the .htaccess issue 🙂

hehe 😛

tried that - nothing 🙁

[loweauto]

loweauto;10949182 wrote:

hehe 😛

tried that - nothing 🙁

i found this:

Most commonly, the problem is that AllowOverride is not set such that your configuration directives are being honored. Make sure that you don't have a AllowOverride None in effect for the file scope in question. A good test for this is to put garbage in your .htaccess file and reload. If a server error is not generated, then you almost certainly have AllowOverride None in effect.

If, on the other hand, you are getting server errors when trying to access documents, check your Apache error log. It will likely tell you that the directive used in your .htaccess file is not permitted. Alternately, it may tell you that you had a syntax error, which you will then need to fix.

could that be onto the right track.. where perhaps there's something higher causing these problems?

[loweauto]

also, you can check the phpinfo of my server here: http://www.karmera.de/info.php

[halojoy]

If you scroll down
you see you have

_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] = /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/

if you have
info.php
index.php
contact-script.php
in the root of your website, then it is in: /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/

if you include 'contact-script.php' from 'index.php' and they are in same directory
you can simply do:
include 'contact-script.php';

this should work, too:
include '/www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-script.php';

if it does not work,
then you should
1. check the spelling of 'contact-script.php' ...... can not be: 'contact_script.php'
2. check permission of contact-script.php, should be possible to read/execute
🙂
..and
keep the .htaccess like before. It has worked good:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

[loweauto]

halojoy;10949188 wrote:

If you scroll down
you see you have

_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] = /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/

if you have
info.php
index.php
contact-script.php
in the root of your website, then it is in: /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/

if you include 'contact-script.php' from 'index.php' and they are in same directory
you can simply do:
include 'contact-script.php';

this should work, too:
include '/www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-script.php';

if it does not work,
then you should
1. check the spelling of 'contact-script.php' ...... can not be: 'contact_script.php'
2. check permission of contact-script.php, should be possible to read/execute
🙂
..and
keep the .htaccess like before. It has worked good:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

hi, thanks for responding! 🙂

i changed to what u suggested, but problem is that theres a different problem.. the php doesnt work at all, for example, it just shows in the source code: http://www.karmera.de/index.php?go=shop when u look in a browser..