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[Danny]

Have just started playing about with PHP includes but they don't seem to work online.
have tryed it with 2 hosts but 1 goes on about errors and failors and the other just doesn't show them
http://www.snaithpri...g.net/index.php
http://www.totalinfe...place/index.php
what i do?

[Kevin]

The first site doesn't support the shorthand PHP Tags. So your includes should look like this:

<?php include('http://your.server.name/header.txt'); ?>

It needs to be . Some servers support the shorthand ones, but others don't.

For the second site, I believe the error shows that the file you're including doesn't exist. In the first site, you didn't change http://your.server.name/header.txt to suit your own site. You're going to need to change that link to the direct file path for the files you're trying to include.

For example, if Mugglenet wanted to include a file in their main directory called hello.txt, their code would look something like this:

<?php
include ('http://mugglenet.com/hello.txt'); ?>

You actually don't need the full URL, so this would work also:

<?php
include('hello.txt');
?>

That should work for you.

[Danny]

will try l8ter i am as of 1 hour ago between hosts so can't upload anything untill my move over to Hertz is compleated.

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