Question about 'include'

[Cordyceps]

Hi,

 

First I'll say that I know approximately nothing about PHP. So..

 

<?php include '/menu.php';?>

 

^ I've been using that as a way of easily applying changes to the menu, footer, etc. for all pages. It works fine on localhost (XAMMP), but when I upload all the files, I get error messages - I know this has something to do with the path because when I take out the "/" (I guess when I do that it looks in the server's root directory?), it works, but only for pages in the site's root directory (since that's where the files are). I guess my question is, is there a simple way of telling it to look in the site's root directory (not the server's - that does work, but I don't want to do it that way) for the file to include?

 

I've tried to do it a few different ways, like

 

<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/menu.php';?>

 

but nothing seems to work... I just get more or less error messages, and nothing shows up.

 

Also, if there's an easy alternative to what I'm trying to do, feel free to mention it.

 

Thanks.

[ignace]

There are a few ways you can do this:

 

define('ROOT_URI', dirname(__FILE__));

include ROOT_URI . '/file.php';

 

Or

 

set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . dirname(__FILE__));

include 'file.php';

[teamatomic]

make a config file that has something like

$path='/home/joebloe/public_html';

$url='http://domain.com';

$url_img="$url/images";

 

then include it into your page.

include('/home/joeblow/public_html/includes/config.php');

 

Then you can do things like

 

$file='text/file.txt';

file_get_contents("$path/$file");

 

and

$img_file='this_pic.jpg';

<img src="<?php echo "$url_img/$img_file"; ?>" border=0>

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic