[RESOLVED] PHP code not executing, but shown in HTML source

[loweauto]

I'm trying to include the contact-script.php file on this page of a site: http://www.karmera.de/index.php?go=shop

But it doesn't do anything, and instead, shows the PHP include in the source code. Do you have any ideas as to why?

To give you a better understanding of my site, index.php looks like this:

<?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" ;

?>

The index.php file opens 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 (in a div). It then includes a www.karmera.de/layout.html file, where there's the design, etc.

As you noticed, there are both .html and .php files, but the thing is - I don't think that should be a problem, as the master file is a .php - so code should execute. To be safe, I even modified htaccess:

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

What do you think the problem is, and how can I solve it?

Also, any other advice is appreciated!

Thank you for your time.

[loweauto]

P.S. When you go to: http://www.karmera.de/html/shop.html it gives the following errors:

Warning: include(./contact-app/common.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-script.php on line 8

Warning: include(./contact-app/common.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-script.php on line 8

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './contact-app/common.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:..') in /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-script.php on line 8

[halojoy]

Warning: include(./contact-app/common.php) [function.include]:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory

You simply have no file:
./contact-app/common.php
or eventually
you have no subdirectory: ./contact-app/

[loweauto]

halojoy;10949251 wrote:

You simply have no file:
./contact-app/common.php
or eventually
you have no subdirectory: ./contact-app/

hi, i double-checked, and i do have both the file and the subdir..
..the problem is that no php code, whatever it be, works on the page.. i even tried phpinfo() and that didnt work either, just showed up in the html source

[bradgrafelman]

loweauto wrote:

hi, i double-checked, and i do have both the file and the subdir

PHP isn't known to lie, so I'm inclined to side with the PHP error message. Are you sure that the file path /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-app/common.php is valid?

loweauto wrote:

the problem is that no php code, whatever it be, works on the page

That can't be true... you just pasted a PHP error message, didn't you? You can't get a PHP error message without executing some PHP code...

[loweauto]

bradgrafelman;10949296 wrote:

PHP isn't known to lie, so I'm inclined to side with the PHP error message. Are you sure that the file path /www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-app/common.php is valid?

That can't be true... you just pasted a PHP error message, didn't you? You can't get a PHP error message without executing some PHP code...

hi, the file i'm trying to call is valid, and everything thre works - all the file paths, etc., for example, i made a test file, with the same exact include here: http://www.karmera.de/test2.php

and it works

and what i meant with the php not working.. is that no matter what php code i put inside www.karmera.de/html/shop.html, even if it's just a simple php echo function, it will work when i just go to the link as above, but it wont work when i navigate to that page inside the layout of my site, i.e. here: http://www.karmera.de/index.php?go=shop

do you get what i mean?

[bradgrafelman]

loweauto wrote:

hi, the file i'm trying to call is valid, and everything thre works - all the file paths, etc., for example, i made a test file, with the same exact include here: http://www.karmera.de/test2.php

and it works

That file is in a different directory, though. The same relative path that works in that file will not work in a subdirectory.

loweauto wrote:

but it wont work when i navigate to that page inside the layout of my site, i.e. here: http://www.karmera.de/index.php?go=shop

Well that's because you're not telling PHP to evaluate the files as PHP scripts. When you use [man]file/man, you simply load the contents of the file into an array, join the array together, and then echo the contents to the user's browser (a process that could be simplified a bit by using [man]file_get_contents/man, by the way).

Instead, you should [man]include/man (or [man]require/man the file so that PHP evaluates it for PHP code instead.

[loweauto]

bradgrafelman;10949327 wrote:

That file is in a different directory, though. The same relative path that works in that file will not work in a subdirectory.

Well that's because you're not telling PHP to evaluate the files as PHP scripts. When you use [man]file/man, you simply load the contents of the file into an array, join the array together, and then echo the contents to the user's browser (a process that could be simplified a bit by using [man]file_get_contents/man, by the way).

Instead, you should [man]include/man (or [man]require/man the file so that PHP evaluates it for PHP code instead.

thanks for your reply. i see what ur saying.

about the subdir, and dir problem - im not sure if that's the problem, because in both directories, im using the 'ultimate', or global root to access the file..

...about ur second point, with regards to using include or require.. you're probably right. so you'd suggest to use include's instead of file() in the index.php?

so just like this:

<?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" ;
}

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

include "layout.html" ;

?>

[bradgrafelman]

loweauto wrote:

in both directories, im using the 'ultimate', or global root to access the file..

Erm... no you're not - the error message shows that.

Warning: include(./contact-app/common.php) [function.include]:

The highlighted text indicates you're using a relative path (where "." represents the current directory).

loweauto wrote:

so you'd suggest to use include's instead of file() in the index.php?

I would suggest using [man]include/man any time you're wanting to first evaluate a file for PHP code before outputting it, yes, since [man]file/man simply loads a file's contents into an array.

loweauto wrote:

so just like this:

No, since you still have the same parameter list as you did for [man]file/man. [man]include[/man] simply takes one parameter - a string pointing to the file you're wanting to include.

[loweauto]

bradgrafelman;10949382 wrote:

Erm... no you're not - the error message shows that.

The highlighted text indicates you're using a relative path (where "." represents the current directory).

I would suggest using [man]include/man any time you're wanting to first evaluate a file for PHP code before outputting it, yes, since [man]file/man simply loads a file's contents into an array.

No, since you still have the same parameter list as you did for [man]file/man. [man]include[/man] simply takes one parameter - a string pointing to the file you're wanting to include.

hmm, well, i used the following:

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

isnt that a global path? what syntax do you suggest i use for include paths?

[bradgrafelman]

loweauto;10949384 wrote:

hmm, well, i used the following:

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

isnt that a global path? what syntax do you suggest i use for include paths?

If by "global" you actually mean "absolute", yes, that should be an absolute path.

The problem, however, is not at that point - it's inside contact-script.php. Specifically, the relative path I mentioned above is located (as per the error message) at:

/www/htdocs/w0086c88/karmera/contact-script.php on line 8