PHP Include From Subfolders

[PTC]

EDIT; SOLVED

I've been putting some include stuff into my sites for navigation lately. The code is working fine for all of the folders in the root directory. The subfolders and lower levels are not working properly.

I've been adding this to the pages

<?php
include ('../include/navigation.php');
?>

I have also tried this in hopes of success

<?php
include ('http://www.myurlhere.com/include/navigation.php');
?>

Here are the warnings I am getting

Warning: include(../include/navigation.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/03/4610003/html/games/texas-holdem/index.php on line 32

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../include/navigation.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/03/4610003/html/games/texas-holdem/index.php on line 32

Would appreciate any help with this. There was a recent thread discussing include stuff and this was appreciated by me, just need a little more help here.

[CK]

If your using dreamweaver you can go to insert > server side include and select the file from the drop down. Then when you create a new page from the existing template it should automatically change the links for you

<?php require_once('includes/myfilehere.php'); ?>

An alternative would be this which will avoid you having to change the file path

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/myfilehere.php"); ?>

[Unknown Webmaster]

This should be working - maybe you could post your folder structure...

<?php
include ('../include/navigation.php');
?>

[PTC]

This should be working - maybe you could post your folder structure...

<?php
include ('../include/navigation.php');
?>

This is a static site. All pages are on index files inside of their own folders.

The 2 URLs below work fine
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php
http://www.mydomain.com/directory1/index.php

The folder below returns the warnings
http://www.mydomain.com/directory2/folder/index.php

[PTC]

all I needed was this, thanks everyone

<?php
include ('../../include/navigation.php');
?>

[Gydian]

all I needed was this, thanks everyone

<?php
include ('../../include/navigation.php');
?>

While doing that works, it's only a temp fix. If you expand your file structure further, you'll run into the same issue. Always try to use the complete file structure path which usually starts out as /home/[INSERT REMAINDER HERE] and you won't have any other issues even if you change file structure to include more folders in those folders later on.

[GregW]

As Gydian said, if you link to your include file starting with a slash you will be fine. From then on it doesn't matter how many folders down your website goes, as the include will retrieve the file from the correct place. All of my includes start with a slash like this:

<?php
include ('/include/navigation.php');
?>