Re: Problem using Include Function with PHP5/Apache2.0/W2K3 Server

Hi, Including with "/something.php" will in fact include "c:\something.php". The root in PHP is NOT the website directory but the drive the sites resides on. Tip: define a constant set to your website's root, and use that root in every include, so that it's absolute and no longer relative. Tip2: put all your include files in a directory like "includes" and set the php directory include_path to it, so that you can include the file "includes/xxx.php" like this "include('xxx.php');" Have fun! Chris. Dave Adler wrote:

I am new to PHP and Apache. I am trying to use the include function to include a file that has my web page header and menu, similar to what I used to do with SSI. So I have a file called menu.inc that is in the /includes folder off of the doc root. the file has HTML in it to display a menu and header IN my main page, I have the line <?php include("/includes/menu.inc"); ?> Which I would expect to insert the HTMP from menu.inc at the location of the line of code. The content of the include file doesn't display. Instead, I get a link that says function.main and below that I get a link that says function.include I can run other PHP code with no problem. The include files are in a folder below the doc root called Includes. This is running on Windows 2003 Server. I did a default install of Apache 2.0 and PHP 5. This is probably a settig in httpd.conf or php.ini but I can't seem to find it in the docs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, David