New Student having trouble with Includes and directory structure

[Jaloney]

Hi all, I have been perplexed for two days now, so I hope someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong. The text says to: Then place header.html,footer.html, and style.css into the includes directory.

 

I made an includes (new folder) directory in the webdocs folder that my school provides for the course. I ftped header, footer, styles to this location along with the index.php file. I put the header and footer inside the includes folder, as well as outside of the folder. Seems where ever I put it, the only thing that shows up in my browser is my index.php file without the header, footer, and .css files attached.

 

I have restarted the whole project and did it again and I am still stuck. I think I need a new wording for the sentence? "Create an includes directory in the same folder as index.php." Folder structure is my weakness.

 

Thank you for your help in advance!

[Jessica]

You did what the sentence told you to do. Does the rest of the assignment explain how you then include the files in your script? It's not like "includes" is a magic folder. 

[Barand]

Sounds like the folder structure should be

• webdocs
  
  • index.php
    
  • includes folder
    
    • header.html
      
    • footer.html
      
    • style.css
      

 

If that is the case, in index.php you would have

 

include("includes/header.html");