haroon310

that was it! i thought closing the body tag would limit its effect but it did'nt. anyway thanks a lot. much appreciated

none! top.php just has some images with links to other pages http://www.theairlinepilots.com/top.php

if i dont insert the include code then everything is ok. Its only after insertion of the code that it messes up. cant find anything wrong with the css file (pasted below) /* The original subSilver Theme for phpBB version 2+ Created by subBlue design http://www.subBlue.com */ /* General page style. The scroll bar colours only visible in IE5.5+ */ body { background-color: #E5E5E5; scrollbar-face-color: #DEE3E7; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF; scrollbar-shadow-color: #DEE3E7; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #D1D7DC; scrollbar-arrow-color: #006699; scrollbar-track-color: #EFEFEF; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #98AAB1; } /* General font families for common tags */ font,th,td,p { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } a:link,a:active,a:visited { color : #006699; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #DD6900; } hr { height: 0px; border: solid #D1D7DC 0px; border-top-width: 1px;} /* This is the border line & background colour round the entire page */ .bodyline { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px #98AAB1 solid; } /* This is the outline round the main forum tables */ .forumline { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 2px #006699 solid; } /* Main table cell colours and backgrounds */ td.row1 { background-color: #EFEFEF; } td.row2 { background-color: #DEE3E7; } td.row3 { background-color: #D1D7DC; } /* This is for the table cell above the Topics, Post & Last posts on the index.php page By default this is the fading out gradiated silver background. However, you could replace this with a bitmap specific for each forum */ td.rowpic { background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: url(images/cellpic2.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; } /* Header cells - the blue and silver gradient backgrounds */ th { color: #FFA34F; font-size: 11px; font-weight : bold; background-color: #006699; height: 25px; background-image: url(images/cellpic3.gif); } td.cat,td.catHead,td.catSides,td.catLeft,td.catRight,td.catBottom { background-image: url(images/cellpic1.gif); background-color:#D1D7DC; border: #FFFFFF; border-style: solid; height: 28px; } /* Setting additional nice inner borders for the main table cells. The names indicate which sides the border will be on. Don't worry if you don't understand this, just ignore it :-) */ td.cat,td.catHead,td.catBottom { height: 29px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px; } th.thHead,th.thSides,th.thTop,th.thLeft,th.thRight,th.thBottom,th.thCornerL,th.thCornerR { font-weight: bold; border: #FFFFFF; border-style: solid; height: 28px; } td.row3Right,td.spaceRow { background-color: #D1D7DC; border: #FFFFFF; border-style: solid; } th.thHead,td.catHead { font-size: 12px; border-width: 1px 1px 0px 1px; } th.thSides,td.catSides,td.spaceRow { border-width: 0px 1px 0px 1px; } th.thRight,td.catRight,td.row3Right { border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; } th.thLeft,td.catLeft { border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; } th.thBottom,td.catBottom { border-width: 0px 1px 1px 1px; } th.thTop { border-width: 1px 0px 0px 0px; } th.thCornerL { border-width: 1px 0px 0px 1px; } th.thCornerR { border-width: 1px 1px 0px 0px; } /* The largest text used in the index page title and toptic title etc. */ .maintitle,h1,h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; line-height : 120%; color : #000000; } /* General text */ .gen { font-size : 12px; } .genmed { font-size : 11px; } .gensmall { font-size : 10px; } .gen,.genmed,.gensmall { color : #000000; } a.gen,a.genmed,a.gensmall { color: #006699; text-decoration: none; } a.gen:hover,a.genmed:hover,a.gensmall:hover { color: #DD6900; text-decoration: underline; } /* The register, login, search etc links at the top of the page */ .mainmenu { font-size : 11px; color : #000000 } a.mainmenu { text-decoration: none; color : #006699; } a.mainmenu:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : #DD6900; } /* Forum category titles */ .cattitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px ; letter-spacing: 1px; color : #006699} a.cattitle { text-decoration: none; color : #006699; } a.cattitle:hover{ text-decoration: underline; } /* Forum title: Text and link to the forums used in: index.php */ .forumlink { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color : #006699; } a.forumlink { text-decoration: none; color : #006699; } a.forumlink:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : #DD6900; } /* Used for the navigation text, (Page 1,2,3 etc) and the navigation bar when in a forum */ .nav { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #000000;} a.nav { text-decoration: none; color : #006699; } a.nav:hover { text-decoration: underline; } /* titles for the topics: could specify viewed link colour too */ .topictitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #000000; } a.topictitle:link { text-decoration: none; color : #006699; } a.topictitle:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #5493B4; } a.topictitle:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #DD6900; } /* Name of poster in viewmsg.php and viewtopic.php and other places */ .name { font-size : 11px; color : #000000;} /* Location, number of posts, post date etc */ .postdetails { font-size : 10px; color : #000000; } /* The content of the posts (body of text) */ .postbody { font-size : 12px;} a.postlink:link { text-decoration: none; color : #006699 } a.postlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #5493B4; } a.postlink:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #DD6900} /* Quote & Code blocks */ .code { font-family: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #006600; background-color: #FAFAFA; border: #D1D7DC; border-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px } .quote { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 125%; background-color: #FAFAFA; border: #D1D7DC; border-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px } /* Copyright and bottom info */ .copyright { font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #444444; letter-spacing: -1px;} a.copyright { color: #444444; text-decoration: none;} a.copyright:hover { color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;} /* Form elements */ input,textarea, select { color : #000000; font: normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; border-color : #000000; } /* The text input fields background colour */ input.post, textarea.post, select { background-color : #FFFFFF; } input { text-indent : 2px; } /* The buttons used for bbCode styling in message post */ input.button { background-color : #EFEFEF; color : #000000; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } /* The main submit button option */ input.mainoption { background-color : #FAFAFA; font-weight : bold; } /* None-bold submit button */ input.liteoption { background-color : #FAFAFA; font-weight : normal; } /* This is the line in the posting page which shows the rollover help line. This is actually a text box, but if set to be the same colour as the background no one will know */ .helpline { background-color: #DEE3E7; border-style: none; } /* Import the fancy styles for IE only (NS4.x doesn't use the @import function) */ @import url("formIE.css");

Hi I want to include a php file (basically my personal header) above the phpbb forum header. The file where I am inserting the code is "page_header.php" which is located in the includes folder. (file attached in this post). If I insert the following code: $root = realpath($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]); include "$root/top.php"; I get what I want but the font color of all the topics posted in the forum change from black to white (making it unreadable). How can I rectify this conflict and how is it happening? Thanks (I am new to php) page_header.php