*SOLVED* Require Problem

[steelmanronald06]

I can't believe that this has happened to me. I should be good enough now that this shouldn't be a problem, but of course I am just not seeing the problem.

[b]Error[/b]
[quote]
Warning: require_once(includes/tmp/top_layout.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream. No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\blakes\includes\config.php on line 43

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/tmp/top_layout.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\wamp\www\blakes\includes\config.php on line 43
[/quote]

[b]config.php line 43[/b]
[code]
function topLayout() {
require_once($path . 'includes/tmp/top_layout.php);
}
[/code]

Now if I do this from C:\wamp\www\blakes\index.php it works. But if I try from C:\wamp\www\blakes\admin\login.php I get the error.  Here is what the login.php does:
[code]
$path = "../";

require_once($path . 'includes/config.php');

topLayout();
[/code]

So does anyone else see what I'm not seeing?

[kenrbnsn]

Where is $path defined in this function?

[code]<?php
function topLayout() {
require_once($path . 'includes/tmp/top_layout.php);
}?>[/code]

Either pass as a parameter or use the global statement.

Ken

[Zane]

maybe make $path
this
$path = "../../";
instead

perhaps

[genericnumber1]

is the file you're trying to include
C:\wamp\www\includes\tmp\top_layout.php
or
C:\wamp\www\blakes\includes\tmp\top_layout.php
?

if it's the first one it would work to set the $path in login.php to "../../"

[steelmanronald06]

It is in the second one you listed...and the ../../ didn't work.

ken, the $path is defined in the file that config.php is included in...defined BEFORE the file is included.

[kenrbnsn]

But, you're within a function, variables defined outside the function are not available to the function unless they are declared global inside the function or passed in via an argument.

[code]<?php
function topLayout() {
  global $path;  // add this statement
  require_once($path . 'includes/tmp/top_layout.php);
}?>[/code]

Ken

[steelmanronald06]

that worked. thanks
:)