SOME ONE LOOK AT THIS

[rizza]

I'm an ASP developer at work and trying to learn php by night. I'm trying to write a page to display some links at of an SQL dbase. I can connect and do all the thing i normally do. I JUST CANT GET A DMAN INCLUDE TO WORK. In asp i just put my con scripts in a file and use a SSI to keep it "secure".

How do i pull this off in PHP? here's what i got so far.

this is my con script in a file off my root/dir called includes

<?php
$user = &quot;nnnnnn&quot;; username
$pw = &quot;mmmmmm&quot;; // mySQL password
$db = &quot;mmmmmmm&quot;; // database $mysql_access = mysql_connect(&quot;localhost&quot;, $user, $pw);
mysql_select_db($db, $mysql_access);
?>

ok no i have this code in the page that i want to included this with.

<?php
include('includes/cndb.inc');
?>

I'm always getting

Warning: Failed opening 'cndb.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/plesk/php/lib/php') in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/test.php on line 13

ANYBODY HELP ME...I'm pulling my hair out over something so stupid.

Also if there is a better way to hide my connection scripts please let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Brian Ridsdale

 

[rycamor]

1. Try a better topic title than &quot;SOMEONE LOOK AT THIS&quot;. Normally I just ignore these.

2. Your system has a defined include path (not necessary in PHP, but allows you to include scripts from that directory without specifying a path). So, when you try to include something without a defined path as just 'includes/filename', PHP is going to look in your include path, rather than in your current directory. One way around this is: include('./includes/cndb.inc'), which specifies that you look in the local directory. Another way is to specify the full path. I have found one very useful method is to use PHP's getcwd() function, which returns the current working directory. Thus you could do:

include ( getcwd() . '/includes/cndb.inc' );

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