[RESOLVED] define (PATH) require(PATH.'file.php) not working

SnowHow

Hello,
I am the admin for A-1 Radio, an internet radio station and I am attempting to add a game section to my site. The forum for the game has been no help. I have run into an issue where the line of code that is supposed to incude other files in a script is not working correctly. This is the line of code in question:

define('PATH', substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], 0, strrpos(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']), '/') + 1));
require(PATH.'header.php');

This is the rusulting error:

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'cheader.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\games\admincp\templates\all.header.php on line 3

I have discovered by playing around with it that if "PATH" is removed from require(PATH.'header.php'), I get this error:

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'header.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\games\admincp\templates\all.header.php on line 3

As you can see, "cheader.php" becomes "header.php" the name of the file to be included.

How do I correct the script to work properly, or do I need to enable something in php.ini?

My specs:
Server 2003 Enterprise, IIS 6
PHP ver 5.2.5

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Jason Snow
A-1 Radio - The Variety Channel
www.a-1radio.com

NogDog

I suspect that since it appears you are on a Windows server, there is no "/" in the result of dirname() call. (It will be a back-slash, instead.) You might want to use the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant instead of a literal "/" or "\".

SnowHow

NogDog;10952794 wrote:
I suspect that since it appears you are on a Windows server, there is no "/" in the result of dirname() call. (It will be a back-slash, instead.) You might want to use the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant instead of a literal "/" or "\".

Thank you for your reply. I tried you suggestion and now I get a blank page, so it seems the script just stops. I'm afraid my php skills are limited, so could you give an example of how DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR would be coded in this instance?

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

SnowHow wrote:
could you give an example of how DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR would be coded in this instance?

DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is a constant, just like the one you're trying to define (PATH).

So.. instead of using the string "/", use the constant DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. If it doesn't work, post what you tried so we can see where you're going wrong.

SnowHow

bradgrafelman;10952799 wrote:
DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is a constant, just like the one you're trying to define (PATH).

So.. instead of using the string "/", use the constant DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. If it doesn't work, post what you tried so we can see where you're going wrong.

OK, let's back up....

This is my directory stucture:

wwwroot
|
Games
|
admincp - > allheader.php <- This is where the code in question is located.

The file that it's needs to include is in the directory above it -- i.e. /Games/ header.php.

If I replace '/' With DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR I get the exact same error as in my original post. Basically, PHP is adding the letter "c" in front of the file that is supposed to be added in the script. It's almost like PHP is looking at the harddrive root instead of the webroot.

define('PATH', substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], 0, strrpos(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']), 'DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR') + 1));
require(PATH.'header.php');

This gives the same error as the '/'. The '\' doesn't work at all.

Thanks!

bradgrafelman

SnowHow wrote:
'DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR'

Putting quotes around DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR makes it a string, not a constant. Constants are not surrounded with quotes. Like I said, it behaves exactly the same way as your PATH constant, which you correctly used on the next line.

SnowHow wrote:
The file that it's needs to include is in the directory above it

So rather going through all that PATH nonsense, why not just do:

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

SnowHow

bradgrafelman;10952806 wrote:
Putting quotes around DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR makes it a string, not a constant. Constants are not surrounded with quotes. Like I said, it behaves exactly the same way as your PATH constant, which you correctly used on the next line.

So rather going through all that PATH nonsense, why not just do:
require('../header.php');
?

Removing the quotes worked! THANK YOU!!!

Here is the code that worked:

define('PATH', substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], 0, 

strrpos(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) + 1));
require(PATH.'header.php');

I didn't write this script. The install script into a MySQL database was worse. That I could fix.... PHP is another story...😃

Thanks for your help!