PHP require... what is wrong?

[pistuka]

Hi Everyone,

I am building a simple site of some pages consisting of text + some photos + menu on the right side.
I have a file named menu.txt in /home/pistuka/public_html directory.

In order to display the same menu on every page I want to load this txt file to be part of my html pages, displaying the menuitems. I use the php function require as it follows:

some html tags here
<?php
require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "menu.txt");
?>
some more html tags here

I also tried the following:

some html tags here
<?php
require("/home/pistuka/public_html/menu.txt");
?>
some more html tags here

But it does not appear. Nothing appears where the menu should appear. I suppose that the problem is at permissions or access path.

Please someone tell me what is wrong.
Thank you.

PS: All this had been working for a while on another web hosting service but I had to move to x10hosting.com.

[techairlines]

If your pages are in the public_html directory, try using

<?php
require("menu.txt")
?>

Make sure permissions are set properly so that your pages are able to access the menu.txt file (should be something around 755).

[descalzo]

If PHP cannot load the file , require throws and error and you would see that.

Got a URL we can look at?

Care to post contents of menu.txt ?

[pistuka]

Thanks, I have tried. Still not working.

After trying I displayed the source of my page. Between the HTML tags and text I can see the

<?php
require("menu.txt")
?>

PHP code... Does this mean that the code was not even processed? Maybe PHP not supported?

Thanks.

[pistuka]

If PHP cannot load the file , require throws and error and you would see that.

Got a URL we can look at?

Care to post contents of menu.txt ?

Hi, link to my page: http://pistuka.x10hosting.com/. The menu should appear on the right side.

Contents of menu.txt:

<h2>Temas tipicos</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Introduccion</a></li>
<li><a href="seguridad.html">Seguridad, sobrevivencia</a></li>
<li><a href="transporte.html">Transporte publico</a></li>
<li><a href="restaurantes.html">Restaurantes, comidas t&iacute;picas *</a></li>
<li><a href="monumentos.html">Monumentos principales</a></li>
<li><a href="balnearios.html">Balnearios</a></li>
<li><a href="mercados.html">Mercados, compras</a></li>
<li><a href="fiesta.html">Ir de fiesta</a></li>
<li><a href="hoteles.html">Hoteles recomendados</a></li>
</ul>


And that's all. Thanks again.

[descalzo]

Url?

[pistuka]

Url?

I posted URL and contents of menu.txt but the forum engine replied that my post will be published only after a moderator approved it.

Maybe because of containing Url it seemed to be spam to the forum engine.

[descalzo]

I give up.

[as4s1n]

You don't get any error messages?

try a try/catch

try {
      require("menu.txt");
} catch(Exception $e) {
     echo $e->getMessage();
} 

[techairlines]

Thanks, I have tried. Still not working.

After trying I displayed the source of my page. Between the HTML tags and text I can see the

<?php
require("menu.txt")
?>

PHP code... Does this mean that the code was not even processed? Maybe PHP not supported?

Thanks.

Oops sorry. I forgot to add the ending semicolon. Add a semicolon after the parentheses.