[SOLVED] Require error.

[timecatcher]

Hey everyone im trying to create a new page and to do so I want to require the connect to database file so that everything can connect to it. However when I run it I get this error:

 

Warning: require(includes/connect.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/timecat/public_html/games/holgame.php on line 2

 

Warning: require(includes/connect.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/timecat/public_html/games/holgame.php on line 2

 

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/connect.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/timecat/public_html/games/holgame.php on line 2

 

Which I don't understand considering I've included that same file before in all my other files.

 

Help needed thanks.

 

Timecatcher.

[DeanWhitehouse]

try using an aboslute link , and check the file names and the folder names

[timecatcher]

Whats an absolute link sorry?

 

Timecatcher.

[elflacodepr]

Warning: require(includes/connect.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/timecat/public_html/games/holgame.php on line 2

 

Warning: require(includes/connect.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/timecat/public_html/games/holgame.php on line 2

 

I recommend to use the .php extension as some servers don't see with good eyes the .inc one, it will do exactly the same , it will look like: connect.php

 

I personally always use "include" instead of "require" and always works fine to me

this is an example

include "includes/connect.php";

[DeanWhitehouse]

an absoulte link is

http://link.com/link.php

 

instead of just using

 

/link.php

[timecatcher]

Thanks but require works for all my other pages and also .inc works fine with my server.

 

Timecatcher.

[DeanWhitehouse]

is this file in the same folder as the other files that work?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The error message is not lying. It is telling you what php found when it tried to execute your code - require(includes/connect.inc.php) No such file or directory. Either the file or directory does not exist relative to the main script that is being executed.

 

Now to the other posts made -

 

You would want to use an absolute file system path, not a link/url, because an include/require using a URL will not actually include the code into the current script.

 

The file name being used, according to the error message, is connect.inc.php, not connect.inc and the actual file name does not matter except if you use a file name not ending in .php, someone can browse to your file and see the php code in it, so if you are using .inc, don't put anything like database usenames or passwords in your file.

[timecatcher]

Alright I fixed it, it was require("../includes/connect.inc.php") this meant that it wasn't searching for includes in the games file.

 

Thanks for your help guys.