PHP4 headers and footers

[evilhaze]

Im having problems calling files to using as a header and footer for my site. Im not good with php at all but this is what i have, and its not working:

<?PHP
include ('/header.html');
?>

<div align="center">
<center>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="700">
<tr>
<td>asdfasdfasdf</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</div>

<?PHP
include ('/footer.html');
?>

Can someone please point out what im doing wrong?

[johnn]

should header.html and footer.html be header.php and footer.php?

John

[Paul_M]

what error are you getting?

[Michel V]

Originally posted by evilhaze
<?PHP
include ('/header.html');
?>

My bet the error is the forward slash... instead of fetching the file in /home/your-account/www, it will try to fetch the file in /, which is the root directory of the server. You don't have html files in the root directory, do you ?

[evilhaze]

I got it working, i just needed to get rid of the / and change ' to "

[seanf]

Originally posted by johnn
should header.html and footer.html be header.php and footer.php?

John

It does not matter what extension you use.

Sean