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akpokemon

Dec 22 2008, 10:36 PM

Hey!

Alrighty...so I'm using the code:

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<?php include('../html_document.txt'); ?>

to include my HTML coding in the PHP pages on my site. It works beautifully for all php documents 1 folder from the root directory. I use the

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../

characters before the file name for the php documents within the non-root-directory folders, and it works great.

But with php documents 2 folders from the root directory, the

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../

characters before the file name don't work anymore and don't refer back to the root directory for some reason. I always thought the

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meant to refer to the root directory, but of course, I always used HTML instead of PHP before moving to this host, so I'm not sure.

Could someone please help me? I'll tell you the exact error code I get once the UUUQ server is back up.

Thanks!

akpokemon

Dec 23 2008, 04:31 PM

Okay here's the error I get:

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[b]Warning:[/b] include() [function.include]: Unable to access ../top.txt in [b]/www/uuuq.com/a/k/p/akpokemonv2/htdocs/images_and_sprites/my_artwork/my_sprites.php[/b] on line [b]1[/b]

[b]Warning:[/b] include(../top.txt) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [b]/www/uuuq.com/a/k/p/akpokemonv2/htdocs/images_and_sprites/my_artwork/my_sprites.php[/b] on line [b]1[/b]

[b]Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../top.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in [b]/www/uuuq.com/a/k/p/akpokemonv2/htdocs/images_and_sprites/my_artwork/my_sprites.php[/b] on line [b]1[/b]

Basically, though, I just don't know how to reference back to the root directory, which is all someone needs to tell me how to do.

I've seen some of these

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$ROOT_

something-or-others flying around, but I don't know...

swordz

Dec 24 2008, 03:29 PM

. actually means go down one level (I believe), so try .../

swordz

akpokemon

Dec 24 2008, 03:56 PM

QUOTE(swordz @ Dec 24 2008, 10:29 AM)

. actually means go down one level (I believe), so try .../

swordz

Well, I figured out that

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../

means to go up one level, so when I did the code

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../../

, it went up 2 levels, which is the parent directory, so it worked!

So for those interested, the full coding I used to include my navigation menu was

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<?php include('../../name_of_html_document_here.txt'); ?>

,which went up 2 levels in the folder system. And of course, it's not always going to be .txt. It'll be the file type of the file that you're including (obviously)

Thanks again, though!

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