Including a file

[estrellas]

Hey guys thanks for all your help so far .. i swear my question are gonna be starting to slow down because i'm understanding more stuff. One thing though -

How do I include a file to be read from another php file ...

like here's the thing.

i want to include

dbconnect.php

<?php $dbuser = 'coolThing'; $dbpass = 'coolPass'; ?>

into all of my files so whenever i decide to change the username or password, i don't have to change all of my files manually.

i've tried to do the include("FILENAME"); and require_once("FILENAME"); but neither of these seem to work. i've changed teh priviledges of dbconnect.php to 777 to hopefully get rid of any problems there but that didn't fix it.

do you guys have any other ideas on how i could get my file to be opened and read?

thanks and cheers!

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http://www.letour.fr

 

[ericbrunson]

The only thing I can think of is that the Include Path for PHP is not finding your included file, because I do this all the time.

 

[sleipnir214]

Are you getting an error?


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[estrellas]

Warning: main (connect.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

and

Warning: main(): Failed opening connect.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:')

but the file is definitly there. i looked and everything reads that it is there.

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http://www.letour.fr

 

[DRJ478]

Where is the file located in relationship to the calling file?
You have the option
a)to specify an absolute path
b) to put the common files in one folder and add the folder to the include_path variable using ini_set()
If the file is physically there, then you can get to it (given the read privileges are correct).

 

[jlahitte]

Did you do some stuff in your conf.ini file of your server?

 

[estrellas]

thanks so much DRJ478! i didn't know that you had to set the path absolute. i had it set relative and that doesn't work. the who entire ini_set() is over my head, but it's okay since there's only one file i need to include.

thanks so much guys cheers!

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http://www.letour.fr