I just recently uploaded my site to my server and my footer, header, and navigation do not show up. basically I have this in my header.html include file.



Can anybody shed some light?

There, some light...

1) try to open each files individually, to check their path
2) you use "includes('include/xxx);", which mean that you are always at the same level in your site. This might cause you a problem.

Look at that:

ROOT
  |------ index.php
  |------ includes/
  |             |
  |             |---> nav.php
  |------ something/
                |
                |---> test.php

If you call your includes from index.php, there will be an includes folder at the same level.
But if you are in the "something" directory, the "includes" directory would be at the top most level, so it won't find it.

You can bypass this by using an absolute path, rather than a relative path.
Better yet, you can use PHP to resolve the absolute path:

PHP Code:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/nav.php"); 


$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] points to your web site root folder on the server. Use this as a start, and then specify in which folder the include are to be found.

Did your code just stop working, or did you just divide your code into includes and can't get it to work?

Try putting a forward slash before includes/:

PHP Code:

<?php include("/includes/graybar.html") ?>

Not entirely sure that will help. If that doesn't work, try using an absolute path (http://yoursite.com/includes/nav.html).

Originally Posted by tripy

You can bypass this by using an absolute path, rather than a relative path.
Better yet, you can use PHP to resolve the absolute path:

PHP Code:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/nav.php"); 


$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] points to your web site root folder on the server. Use this as a start, and then specify in which folder the include are to be found.

Definitely the way to go... this will help avoid spelling errors and will make your site more portable.

First thing, which I forgot to mention, is make sure your file names are spelled correctly... I dont know how many times I spend hours trouble shooting an application only to find that I reversed two letters in a file name! lol

Ok i tried putting the forward slash and I tried the absolute path as well and they both didnt work. Basically when I view my index.php page on the web, it displays some of my background images that are actually on the index page and not includes. Everything I tried including with php is just displayed in black text where it should be on the page and just shows the contents of my includes files (div tags with the html).

include(

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/nav.php");

so I should put the code above in place of the php code I have now in index.php?
for each include file?

include(

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/nav.php");

so I should put the code above in place of the php code I have now in index.php?
for each include file?

Yes, it would resolve the level problem.
After that, if the result is not right, it's because the resulting HTML is not right.

Look at the source, and try to locate the error.
I tend to add an html comment in my includes, to locate where it starts, and where it ends.
It helps debugging the include in those cases

Hmm looking at the source on the actual live page and this is what the code reads as

I have no idea why it's doing that. Does godaddy.com support php?

Thats strange... are you using godaddy's html editor to edit your include pages?

Perhaps if you are it is adding the head stuff:

<meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer">

Im sure your account supports php otherwise, nothing would show up.. your index.php would be read as text

This is what I'm seeing when I view index.php. I am using Dreamweaver not Godaddy's editor. I tried what this website suggested and it didn't work either. http://www.pro-dezign.com/php-include.html

By the way, does the fact that I made this website with a Mac have anything to do with this not working right?

I figured this out. I made the includes in text edit on my mac and saved them with a php extension. For some reason that other text got added in there somehow and I opened each of them in dreamweaver, removed all the code and repasted just my text and it worked.