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Sam Watts
Sam Watts

Reputation: 31

Including php files into a site page

I am trying to include my header.php & footer.php file that I have created into every page. And so far its been working!

As soon as I created a new directory e.g /new-site-area - when I then created a new php page and tried to include the header.php this then didn't seam to work?

This is the php include that I am using, and it is working...

<?php include ("includes/header.php");?>

It just seems to stop working as soon as I try to include it into a page that is in a /directory.

Example:

www.mysite.com - header include works
www.mysite.com/new-directory/new-area - header include doesn't work

I can't understand why it would work on my websites root, however not as soon as the page is in a different /area of my site.

If this is an unfixable problem could somebody please advise a better way of including php files into a site page!

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (3)

Macbernie
Macbernie

Reputation: 1323

You have to browse into your directory with the return argument "../"

for example, your page 

www.mysite.com/new-directory/

should use

<?php include ("../includes/header.php");?>

for a 2 level folder like

www.mysite.com/new-directory/new-directory2

It should be

<?php include ("../../includes/header.php");?>

Upvotes: 2

Rikudou_Sennin
Rikudou_Sennin

Reputation: 1375

Try include "../includes/header.php" - the best would be to write some function that would include it right, for example:

function load($file) {
    return $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/$file";
}

then just use include(load("header.php"));

Or if you want your load() function to support multiple paths, try something like this:

function load($file) {
    $paths = array(
        "includes",
        "some_other_dir/includes"
    );
    foreach($paths as $path) {
        if(file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/$path/$file")) {
            return $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/$path/$file";
        }
    }
    trigger_error("File $file not found in any of paths", E_USER_ERROR);
}

Then if the file is in any of paths specified, it will be included via include(load("file.php"));, if the file does not exist it will throw an error.

Upvotes: 1

Raulucco
Raulucco

Reputation: 3426

Use a framework if you don't want to implement a way of resolving the path of your includes. There is a lot of small frameworks that handle this and many other problems.

Upvotes: 0

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