eddedwards

thanks. that has helped me a lot.

ive heard about using .htaccess thats something im about to learn about. but ive not heard of the CHMOD whats that about?

might not be much help. but i do a fair bit of including and ive not had this problem. the only difference is that ive always used include_once(), or maybee you could try require_once(), i dont really know the difference but its worth a try. just for debug purposes you could try just print_r() the include. see whats in there.

is there some way i can store files somewhere that will stop someone running something to steal my source code of my php files. or a way of having a validation script in each file to find out where it was run from and exit if its not the right place?