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liamC

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:10

I have made a header file called header.php

I have made an index.php file and want the top of index.php to show the text/image that is in header.php. I have added this code;

code:
<?php include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'header.php') ?>

I keep getting this error:

quote:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/.saggy/username/domain.com/site/header.php on line 51

Anyone know where I'm going wrong?

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by liamC]

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by liamC]

PaulW

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:22

meh you edited

issue is a problem in the header.php file (line 51 as it says), not with the include statement itself

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by PaulW]

liamC

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:35

There is no line 51 mate, that's the problem!

Basically I'm just doing a test site to get it working!

In header.php I have a link to www.yahoo.com

In index.php, I have the code above, and a word saying 'test'!

PaulW

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:36

post the code contained in header.php here

Doug

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:37

Post the code up from your header.php file.

i bet you have forgotten to put a ; in there somewhere!

liamC

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:50

yay! I got it working; my first bit of PHP Code

Basically, I've put a link to yahoo.com in the header.php file, and put the word 'test' in index.php

Here is the code for both pages for future help for anyone.

HEADER.PHP

code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<style type="text/css">

<!--

body {

	margin-left: 0px;

	margin-top: 0px;

}

-->

</style></head>

<body>

<a href="www.yahoo.com" target="_blank">www.yahoo.com</a>

</body>

</html>

INDEX.PHP

code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<style type="text/css">

<!--

body {

	margin-left: 0px;

	margin-top: 0px;

}

-->

</style></head>



<body>

<?php include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/header.php') ?>

<br />

test

</body>

</html>

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by liamC]

Steve

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:53

theres no php in the header file lol

liamC

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23rd Nov 06 at 20:59

I wasn't bothered about that mate, I just wanted the index.php page displaying whatever was in the header.php file.

New to it, so just having a play around

drax

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23rd Nov 06 at 21:08

You're better off including content from pages, INTO a template, rather than calling a template file into a content file

John

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23rd Nov 06 at 21:10

Where did you find the best for learning php liam?

Just looking about google?

Steve

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23rd Nov 06 at 21:28

you need to call it as a template, and parse it anything in an include will try and read that file as php and that file isnt php hence why your getting the error

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by Steve]

drax

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23rd Nov 06 at 21:31

What are you talking about? I include .php's all the time which dont have PHP in

Steve

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23rd Nov 06 at 22:00

what i mean is, simply by including that file it wont display on your page until you actually output it as an array and parse it

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by Steve]

liamC

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23rd Nov 06 at 22:05

John; yes, just be looking about google.

Steve; that piece of coding works fine to display things from the header.php file

I will have a flash animation and a list of links in header.php and it will save putting them all in each file.

There won't be anything wrong with doing that?

Steve

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23rd Nov 06 at 22:07

yes but when you try and include it, unless you tell it to output to the browser it wont do anything or you'l get errors.

Basically when you incldue it it wil read whats in that file, and do nothing until you tell it to.

In this case you want to either output elements from an array, or just output it straight to the browser using parse

Doug

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23rd Nov 06 at 22:45

quote:
Originally posted by John
Where did you find the best for learning php liam?

Just looking about google?

www.freewebmasterhelp.com has some good tutorials

Steve

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23rd Nov 06 at 22:46

i always learn from messing about with it myself, i cannt learn anything from reading stuff, iv always been shit at exams for this reason, when my teachers said i should be getting a's i was coming away with b's and c's, but i was actually better than some of the kids coming away with a's

[Edited on 23-11-2006 by Steve]

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23rd Nov 06 at 23:11

quote:
Originally posted by John
Where did you find the best for learning php liam?

Just looking about google?

php.net or codewalkers.com...

drax

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24th Nov 06 at 00:33

I reverse engineer things

Steve

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24th Nov 06 at 08:59

if you want to twait til later il write what you need to add to your code.

AndyKent

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24th Nov 06 at 09:02

Steve, that code works fine - my website php-includes are written just like that and everything is output fine without any extra function calls???

Steve

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24th Nov 06 at 09:03

i bung the info from the include into a variable then output the page, means you can add elements of the page as an array, IMO that is a better way of doing it as you can adjust things quickly and site wide if you need to

[Edited on 24-11-2006 by Steve]

AndyKent

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24th Nov 06 at 09:11

I have mine set-up with various useful features, page layouts, log-in/out processes etc. in various functions. I include a whole PHP page - user_access.php for example - and then call the functions as needed.

Actually, I see what you mean now....you can't just bung everything at the top and hope it works as that makes it more complicated......I get you now!

Steve

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24th Nov 06 at 09:15

uh huh

liamC

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24th Nov 06 at 13:42

The purpose that I would need it for is fine though surely?

If I make a whole website, and put the navigation links on every single page, surely making a header page with all the links on saves me loads of time as I only have to change one page?

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