[SOLVED] include function

[giggamosis]

Hello All,

I have finally got my Apache server and php running now when i try to run one of my premade sites i get the following errors.

 

Warning: include(/sidebar.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\template.php on line 37

 

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/sidebar.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\template.php on line 37

 

Warning: include(/main.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\template.php on line 38

 

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/main.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\template.php on line 38

 

 

Please assist me with finding out what these errors mean and how to fix them. Thank you for your help.

[gevans]

Can you show line 35 - 40 of the file template.php

[giggamosis]

Sure. Here you go.

 

<table height=400 width=100% border=0>
  <tr>
    <td valign=top width=150><?php include("/sidebar.php")?></td>
<td valign=top align=left><?php include("/" . $ContentFile)?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

[gevans]

Are all the files you're refereneing in the same folder?

 

If so get rid of the forward slashes;

 

<table height=400 width=100% border=0>
  <tr>
    <td valign=top width=150><?php include("sidebar.php") ?></td>
   <td valign=top align=left><?php include($ContentFile) ?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

[giggamosis]

Awesome!!! That worked. Thank you very much for the help gevans. Also, thanks for the fast response time.

 

I do have one last question though. What is the line

<td valign=top align=left><?php include("/" . $ContentFile)?></td>

trying to do?

[gevans]

<?php include($ContentFile) ?>

 

If you look above those lines of code you'll find the above variable $contentFile being set.

 

Somewhere your script is assigning a filename string to that variable to be used within the include statement.