In a php include /file.php doesn't work...

[MegaMan1311]

Odd. When I use <php include('/index.php');?> from mypage.php, it doesn't work. It doesn't like the slash. Shouldn't that work?

EDIT: Here is my error:
Warning: require() [function.require]: Unable to access /header.php in /var/www/vhosts/url/httpdocs/testing/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: require(/header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/url/httpdocs/testing/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: require() [function.require]: Unable to access /header.php in /var/www/vhosts/url/httpdocs/testing/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: require(/header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/url/httpdocs/testing/server_root.php on line 2

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/header.php' (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/url/httpdocs/testing/server_root.php on line 2


Thanks,
MegaMan1311

 

[Me1000]

edit: nevermind you edited post negated my advice...

 

[MegaMan1311]

Makes sense... I edited your code to /httpdocs/header.php, but it still didn't work.

Error:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Unable to access /httpdocs/header.php in /var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: include(/httpdocs/header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: include() [function.include]: Unable to access /httpdocs/header.php in /var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: include(/httpdocs/header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/server_root.php on line 2

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/httpdocs/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/server_root.php on line 2

Edit: I read your edit. Thanks for your help.

 

[Me1000]

without access to your file structure there isnt a lot to do...

Where does this file sit on your server? the / might even be taking you all the way back to the root of your hard drive depending on how PHP was setup.

in which case you should use something like
/var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/

it just has to do with locating the file in the file structure tree


EDIT:
is there any reason you are adding the slash?
If you want to get to the directory above where you are include('../page.php'); take you to the directory above where the current file is.

 

[MegaMan1311]

Thank you! That works. There is still one problem though.
The following code doesn't work. It is because of the first slash... (again).
<img id="nav_nav" src="/images/navigation/nav.jpg" alt=""/>

Also, the reason I am doing this is that this code goes in a template that will be used in both the document root AND subfolders. The template code doesn't change, so I need code that will work in whatever folder it is put in.

 

[Me1000]

the URL to the image is equivalent to this,
http://thecybernetwork.net/images/navigation/nav.jpg

So you can adapt the path accordingly,

 

[MegaMan1311]

I feel really stupid right now. I forgot to upload the images folder... Thanks for all of your help. You're a lifesaver!

 

[Me1000]

haha, happens to the best of us!
Try editing a CSS file to fix this little annoyance, then after 240 reloads and line changes you remember that you never uploaded the new file to begin with! haha


You're very welcome.

 

[angelwatt]

Just to throw it out there, here is how I access the site root:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/index.html";

 

[MegaMan1311]

Ok, I have another issue. I'm am also integrating phpBB's user database into my site. So, here is the code to do that. It also uses includes, so I used the above method to fix it. It works like a charm, but it has one small flaw.

Code to include phpBB.

<?php
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = '/var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/forums/';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup(); 
global $user;
?>

Flaw:

<?php
							if($user->data['is_registered'])
							{
								echo "<br /><div class=\"center\">";
								echo get_user_avatar($user->data['user_avatar'], $user->data['user_avatar_type'], $user->data['user_avatar_width'], $user->data['user_avatar_height']);
								echo "<br /><br />Welcome back " . $user->data['username'] .  " (<a href=\"" . append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}ucp.$phpEx", "mode=logout", true, $user->session_id). "\">Log out</a>)";
								echo "<br />You have <a href=\"" . append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}ucp.$phpEx", 'i=pm&folder=inbox') . "\">" . $user->data['user_new_privmsg'] . "</a> new private messages.";
								echo "</div><br />";
							}
							
							else and so on and so forth

When you try to log out using the above code, it makes the log out link is this:

http://www.thecybernetwork.net/var/www/vhosts/thecybernetwork.net/httpdocs/forums/ucp.php?mode=logout&sid=4f453ccb0048f490d856b87b4e92afc3

EDIT: Just realized something. The phpBB code is called before the HTML tag. That may be what my problem is.

Not quite what I need, since thecybernetwork.net is the root. Thanks in advance.

MegaMan1311