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[Anon]

Hey!
I use INCLUDE in my php script...
<? include ('top.php'); ?> and its working.
But when i type this
<? include ('http://127.0.0.1/top.php'); ?>

it says->>>.

Fatal error: Failed opening required 'http://127.0.0.1/top.php' (include_path='') in f:\apachegroup\apache\htdocs\index.php on line 17

Whats wrong... please hepl>>-->->->

[Anon]

The parser is hanging on the // and the dots. Turn them .

[lightning]

1 - Make sure top.php is in the same directory as index.php.

2 - try using a relative link. Example:
<?php
include('top.php');
?>

3 - If you wish to use an absolute link as shown in your post, try using
<?php
include('http://localhost/top.php');
?>

Hope this helps,
Jonathan Summers

[lightning]

opps, I skimmed to fast through your message. Disregard the first two checks as you've shown that will work.

My guess is that the "callback" IP Address 127.0.0.1 might not work in this case, http://localhost/file.php should though.

Otherwise, maybe it is some kind of conflict because windows uses backslashes for directories and the rest of the world uses forward slashes... though I think Apache is smart enough to get around that.

All in all, I would stick with what you had:
include ('top.php');
If it ain't broke, don't fix it 🙂 There is no reason to use an absolute link...

Also note that "URL fopen wrappers" must be enable in php.ini (it is by default so it shouldn't be a problem...) Absolute links work quite differently in includes(); you can check out the documentation here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php