PHP Forum

**yorsite** · 01-24-2008, 08:27 PM

Hi,

Can someone tell me how to fix a problem I am having (I am a newbie to PHP):

I am working on http://journalaccess.com and I am coming accross an issue where:

I use <?php require(); ?> to include my header however when I do this the index.php page shows the info from the header (<div class="h2"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http:/) in the body of the index page, which shows as errors in strict 1.0 whenever I try to validate it. Should I even be using <?php require(); ?>, or should I use something else?

Help is appreciated. And if you would like to throw in some tips that would be great too, thanks!

**TributeK** · 01-24-2008, 09:21 PM

Sounds like you might be missing a < or a > somewhere if it is displaying the actual code in the body of your page.

There is nothing wrong with using <?php require('file.php'); ?> I use it more than just a few times on my pages. If you want to try something else though, try this one:



I haven't used it in quite a while but as far as I know it does the exact same thing as phps include. The only thing is that if you use php's require() it will keep the rest of your script from executing if the require() fails to load, which can be a good thing depending on what type of script you have. Personally I would just stick with require().

**reli4nt** · 01-25-2008, 11:19 AM

<div class="h2"><!DOC... will always generate an error since NOTHING should appear before the doctype. Where is this div coming from?

**futurevisions** · 03:39 PM

Looks to me like you have a doctype declaration INSIDE your header include file, and a couple of others by the look of it.

You ONLY need the doctype declaration at the top of your index file. You can delete the others.

Hope this helps!