Include not working

[Nodral]

Hi all

Please see script below. Can anyone tell me why when there is a $_GET variable called 'answer' detected, the page section1 is not included?

I'm stumped as this works for the previous include of 'newuser'

<?php

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '\360feedback\includes\includes.php';

if (isset($_GET['newuser']))
{
include 'userform.html.php';
exit ();
}

if (isset($_GET['answer']))
{
include 'section1.html.php';
exit ();
}

if(isset($_POST['firstname']))
{
;
$sql = 'INSERT INTO user SET
firstname = "' . $_POST['firstname'] . '",
surname = "' . $_POST['surname'] . '",
relation = "' . $_POST['relation'] . '"';

if(!mysqli_query($link, $sql))
{
$error = 'Error adding user:' . mysqli_error($link);
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '\360feedback\includes\error.html.php';
exit();
}
header('Location: .');
exit();
}

$result = mysqli_query($link, 'SELECT * FROM user');
if(!$result)
{
$error = 'Error fetching users: ' . mysqli_error($link);
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '\360feedback\includes\error.html.php';
exit();
}

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
$firstname[] = $row['firstname'];
$surname[] = $row['surname'];
$relation[] = $row['relation'];
}

include 'main.html.php';

?>

[Emma]

I can't see anything obviously wrong with your code, so I'd start with all the basic questions.

Does the code ever get inside the if statement? (Have you echoed out something to check?)

Is the path and file name correct?

If those parts are working is it the include file itself?
From http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

When a file is included, parsing drops out of PHP mode and into HTML mode at the beginning of the target file, and resumes again at the end. For this reason, any code inside the target file which should be executed as PHP code must be enclosed within valid PHP start and end tags.

Maybe that file uses short tags instead of the full tags?

Also putting $_POST data straight into a database without checking if it's safe is a really bad idea (if that's just example code above please ignore).

[sneakyimp]

Does section1.html.php exist? Also, you might try [man]require[/man] instead as it will cause a fatal error if the file is not found.

[bradgrafelman]

I'd suggestion using '/' (or, even better, the PATH_SEPARATOR constant) in your paths, rather than a backslash.