How do you?

[jammycut]

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere - I have had a good hunt but couldn't find anything. Could seriosuly use some advice from those who know please?

I'm building a site with multiple sub folders of pages, using includes commands - how do you code the include command so as to avoid having to upload each include file to each seperate local folder?

I've tried
<?php include("/includes-files/logo.txt"); ?>
<?php include("http://www.sitename.com/includes-files/logo.txt"); ?> but to make the include .txt file show at all I have to upload the required .txt files to every single folder and sub folder.

Am I being terribly dim (more than likely ) but there must be a way to upload one set of include files to root and have them called however much you drill down into sub folders, surely. Otherwise, I'm in for a heck of an update stretch each time I need to change an include!

Regards

Rufus

[Raffles]

include() works with the filesystem, so a URL won't work. Just using ./includes-files/logo.txt might work, otherwise you might need to use something like this:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes-files/logo.txt' 

[AutisticCuckoo]

If your include files include other files, you may need to set a configuration parameter to indicate your include file path. If you don't have access to the php.ini file, you can do it in your PHP code:

ini_set('include_path', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include-files/'); 

[jammycut]

Hi Raffles,

Many thanks for the reply and advice.

I shall give that a try.

Can I just check please (make sure i get it right in other words) that what I should put into the code would be

<?php include(include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes-files/logo.txt'); ?>



Tommy - thank you for your advice. I'm not yet at the level of ability to think of including includes within includes but I shall store that away for the day when I do get that far!

With thanks

Rufus

[Raffles]

No, that's wrong, you have two includes there. It should be:

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes-files/logo.txt'); ?>

But I would try the first thing I posted first:

<?php include('./includes-files/logo.txt'); ?>

Then if that doesn't work use the DOCUMENT_ROOT version.

I might be wrong, but I think what Tommy posted should be

ini_set('include_path', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/include-files/'); 

?

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ini.core...i.include-path

[jammycut]

Many thanks for the advice Raffles - much appreciated.

I shall give it a try and report back.

Regards

Rufus

[wheeler]

in all likelihood, you are simply not pointing to the file correctly. The method of including a file is not unlike a relative link in a standard html link.

If your file is in /web-design/about.htm and you want to jump up to the parent folder and contact, you use <a href="../contact.htm">contact</a>. The same principle applies for including a php file, OR, you can use the absolute server path, which $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; will show when echoed.

[AutisticCuckoo]

I might be wrong, but I think what Tommy posted should be

You're absolutely right. I've updated my previous post.

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; ++$i) {
    echo "I will not post without checking the documentation again!\n";
}