PHP Includes and Require not working

php include-path

28,045

try :

include('../test/header.php');

it works fine in me.

Edit: and if not on your case, try to correct the path of your init.php:

require_once('../core/init.php');

28,045

Tauciokas

I'm a PHP Web Developer

Updated on May 13, 2021

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Tauciokas almost 3 years

I know this question has been asked before, but even after reading other posts I can't figure out whats going on...

Please have a look at my code structure and see what am I doing wrong..

Folder structure:

index.php

(FOLDER - Includes) header.php

(FOLDER - browse) blog.php , ecommerce.php, other.php

(FOLDER - core) init.php

I'm trying to include Header.php from includes folder in blog.php in browse folder. Below is my header.php code.

Header file located in Includes folder

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]><html class="ie ie6" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]><html class="ie ie7" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]><html class="ie ie8" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--><html lang="en"> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>

    <!-- Basic Page Needs
  ================================================== -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Web Awwards | Web Gallery | Submit your site</title>
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="author" content="">

    <!-- Mobile Specific Metas
  ================================================== -->
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

    <!-- CSS
  ================================================== -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/base.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/skeleton.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/layout.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/styles.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/menu.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/submission.css">

    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
        <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->

    <!-- Favicons
    ================================================== -->
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="images/apple-touch-icon.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="images/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="images/apple-touch-icon-114x114.png">

</head>
<body>
<?php
    require_once('core/init.php');
?>
<!-- Menu Horizontal -->
<div class="horizontal">
    <div class="webName">

and Browse folder blog.php file code:

<?php
    include './includes/header.php';
?>
<!-- TODO PHP Scripts -->
<div class="category nine columns">
    <div class="category-img">
        <img src="css/img/webImg/screen1.png" alt="Site Description"/>
    </div>
    <h3> Web Name </h3>
    <h5> Designed By: Tautvydas Slegaitis </h5>
    <h7> Designers url </h7>
    <div class="vote">
        <h4> Vote for my site </h4>
        </br>
        <a href="#"> Love it </a>
        <a href="#"> Nope, Not for me </a>
    </div>
</div>

</div><!-- Close Container Div -->
<div class="footer">


</div>



</body>
</html>

But it is not working. I dont know why,... Please please help me sort this out its killing me for the past 2 days. Coda 2 is showing me an error

" Warning: include(./includes/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in - on line 2 Warning: include(): Failed opening './includes/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in - on line 2 "

init.php code:

<?php
session_start();

$GLOBALS['config'] = array(
    'mysql' => array(
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'username' => 'root',
        'password' => 'root',
        'db' => 'webAwwards'
    ),
    'remember' => array(
        'cookie_name' => 'hash',
        'cookie_expire' => 604800
    ),
    'session' => array(
        'session_name' => 'user'

    )
);
// TODO Remove parenthesis in require once if doesnt work
spl_autoload_register(function($class) {
    require_once('classes/' . $class . '.php');
});

require_once('/functions/sanitise.php');

?>

christopher about 10 years

./ should be ../.
Tauciokas about 10 years

if I add ../ it includes the header but then stops executing the rest of blog.php and if I view source code in the browser only shows header.php code
christopher about 10 years

Try using require instead of include.
Tauciokas about 10 years

if I use require it doesnt change anything. I'm really out of ideas no idea whats going on

Tauciokas about 10 years

if i correct the path of my init.php as you suggested none of the files open then. I know it would make sense but I dont know why this is happening
Vainglory07 about 10 years

have you tried to remove it first just to check if you can already check get include('../test/header.php'); correctly?
Tauciokas about 10 years

Right so the problem is then with the include of init.php in the header :)
Tauciokas about 10 years

But how could I make it so it includes in all sort of different directories then>? Whether it be in main index.php and browse/blog.php
Vainglory07 about 10 years

instead of using require_once, can you also try include on init.php and see what will happen?
Tauciokas about 10 years

When using include rather then require the server will still execute the code but dont give me error even if core/init.php is not included?