Hello,

     I have installed php/mysql on my G5 os 10.3.3 machine and when I'm running scripts, all include files are ignored. I have the generic document root of: /Library/WebServer/Documents. For example: if this script "include_test.php" has this code:

<? echo "hello World!"; ?>

and I include it at the top of "test.php" like this:

<? include( "include_test.php"); ?>

Nothing will be printed.

I'm sure it has to to w/ the php.ini file but that's as far as I can guess.

Thanks for any help.

Clem C

Anything showing up when you view the source code in the browser?

Perhaps short tags (e.g. <? ?>) are disabled. These aren't a good idea to get in the habit of using anyway, stick with <?php ?>

Regards,
Rich

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Thanks so much for getting back to me. I tried the long tags and it didn't change anything....

Do these exist in the same directory?

A few things to check:
1st, file permissions, PHP needs at least read permission to be able to get the file.

See this article for setting permissions in Unix / OSX
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11962

2nd, the include_path directive in php.ini. This is where PHP will look for files, by default it just looks in the absolute/relative path you tell it to, this simplifies things a bit by not requiring an absolute path for every include in the directories specified by this directive.

Regards,
Rich

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Everythings working fine now. Thanks for your help. It was just the permissions thing.

As usual - the OBVIOUS.

Cheers,

[b] Clem C/b]