Newbie to PHP

Anon

Hi,

I am trying to require a php file from outside of the directory tree. It says the file type has to be php or php3 either works on the server, So far I have this
<?php

require('/home/name/php/stats.php3');

<head>
***rest of the HTML

The absolute path is /home/name and I have added a Dir beside HTML call php and put the stats.php3 file in it.

This does work, all I get is an error and when I change it to the HTML and call it using 'stats.php3' it runs okay but the stats aren't updated. However if I type stats.php3 in the Address bar the stats are updated.

Can someone please help!

Cheers

Ghost

Anon

<?php

require('/home/name/php/stats.php3');

<head>
***rest of the HTML

What is the file extension of this file? It must be either a .php or .php3 extension to work properly from the info above. Your web server will only direct these file extensions to the PHP parser before output to the browser.

You might also try using an include() instead of a require().

Good luck.

Anon

Just to let you know this should probably be posted in the coding help section.

I am not a stickler but others will probably lose sleep over your post in the wrong forum.

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Anon

Sorry,

It was a php3 file but In the end the only way it would count was if the file was entered in the Address bar. I converted a content.htm to content.php3 and put the require in there...No luck

But...eventually~30 min's ago I tried renaming the index.htm to index.php and I added the require at the top of the frameset.

And now everything works.

It started badly anyway the whole script/install files were written in French.

Cheers for the Help and again to anyone who was upset, I'm sorry I will post in the correct place next time.