Posted by Dave Adler on 10/16/68 11:08

Richard,

Thanks for the feedback. The reference to the file location was the problem.

My include statement was
include("/includes/menu.inc");

I changed it to
include ($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/includes/menu.inc");

This solved the problem.

David


"Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Hunh?
>
> Give us a link to your page, or use "View Source" on the browser and post
> the HTML you got for the include parts.
>
> There's NO WAY you could have literally managed to break PHP's include
> statement -- So you've got to be doing something else wrong.
>
> Perhaps your include_path setting is not what you want?
>
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