Problem including a file

[svtsnake03]

I am a PHP newbie, but learning quickly.

I use include to display the header and footer for my website.

The name of the header file is header.inc

In my index.php file, I have

include (header.inc);

But it will not display, instead I get an error message saying there is no file called headerinc. Thats right, it is removing the period inbetween header and inc.

What would cause this?

The only way I can make includes work, is to name the file with no extension.

I renamed it to just header, and it works file when I tell it to include header, but if I give it a name with an extension, it will not work.

Any ideas?

[Itshim]

Place quotation marks around the file name. Such as:
include ("header.inc");

[svtsnake03]

That fixed it, but why would not having the " marks around it cause apache to rewrite the filename without the period?

[mark_W]

You can also use

 
include('filename.php'); 

[jinkas]

because otherwise php is treating the . as a concactanation operator and simply combines the two strings on either side of it

[svtsnake03]

because otherwise php is treating the . as a concactanation operator and simply combines the two strings on either side of it

Ah, I understand now.

Thanks guys, for the speedy response.