Re: More PHP Includes

Gary schreef: > I'm sorry you were not able to understand the questions, but thank you for > trying. a few tips: 1. don't assume people know what 'projectseven PMM' 2. it's doubtful anyone worth their salt on this list uses or knows much about a mind-bending, soul-destroyer like DreamWeaver. 3. try your hand at building a page by hand using a simple text editor and copious ammounts of searching/reading about HTML structure ... doing it this way will help you to understand what goes wrong and why, when DW tries to 'help you'. > The path to the include is not an absolute path. then it is on the server, somewhere on your php include_path. > "Jochem Maas" <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote in message > news:49B6B6D8.7050503@iamjochem.com... >> Gary schreef: >>> Thanks again for all the help. >>> >>> I created a simple page of all includes (header, menu, 3 columns). I >>> mixed >>> the file types up. The menu (projectseven PMM) I saved as a library item, >>> works fine. Had an HTML file in there, but I am guessing that having 2 >>> page >>> declarations along with an extra set of <head> and <body> tags was >>> playing >>> havoc with the code, so I removed them. Same thing when I created a php >>> page >>> and saved it as filename.inc.php, so I removed all the declarations and >>> tags, again seems to work fine. Also included a simple .txt file. >>> >>> I did get some strange results in that all of the <tags> were highlighted >>> after the menu, and I had to remove and insert again to correct. >>> >>> So is this the best way, to create a php page, remove all of the html >>> tags >>> and page declarations and name it filename.inc.php? (I'm using DW CS3) >> I'm quite sure I don't understand any of that ... so I'd hazard a guess >> and so "no it's not the best way" >> >>> Also, something I do not understand, I included a small txt file in a >>> page >>> of a customer and it shows fine, however this file is not on the >>> server...is >>> this normal? >>> >> it's probably pointing to a file on your machine, e.g. >> file://C:/path/to/file.txt, >> that's something you see quite often with DW/FrontPage/<insert >> WYSIWYG-PITA-editor here>. >> >>> > > >