[MMJ]

in /index.html I have this line:

<div id="sidebar">
<?php include('/home/user/public_html/sidebar.php'); ?>
</div>

in tech/index.php i have the same line.

it only appears in tech/index.html. why?

[deepdiver01]

Looks like a path problem,and I amguessing that the sidebar.php file is sitting in the tech folder.

For the first index.php file, try

<?php include('/home/user/public_html/tech/sidebar.php'); ?>

[MMJ]

I renamed index.html to index.php

Solved.

[MMJ]

Question 2:

Why does it make a difference if a webpage is named index.html or index.php?

[brendandonhu]

That's an absolute path so it will work in any directory on that server.
.html files aren't parsed for PHP by default. You normally need to use a .php file to use PHP code.

[MMJ]

Thanks! Even if it has php tags?

Question 3: I have this line (/template/sidebar.php') template is a folder under public_html. why is it not finding it?

NOTE: My experience level does not apply to web design

[covert215]

You can use HTML in a php file, but you can't use php in an HTML file.

[MMJ]

Thanks covert!

if you put / at the beginning of a file path what does it mean?

[Eriksrocks]

A starting / means from the root directory, really like from your public_html folder or from the domain. If you don't have a / at the beginning it will use the current directory that your file is in as the starting point.

FYI ../ means to go back a directory from the current position, so if you had

domain.com/test/page.html and
domain.com/myfolder/new.html

and you had a link on /test/page.html and you wanted to link to /myfolder/new.html you could either do it like this:

/myfolder/new.html or like this: ../myfolder/new.html

You can use HTML in a php file, but you can't use php in an HTML file.

Sure you can use PHP in an HTML file. All you have to add is a couple lines in .htaccess so that PHP will parse HTML files and you're set.

[MMJ]

ok this is where the file is:

public_html/template/123.php

This is how I put it in the webpage:

/template/123.php

but it doesn't find it. why?

[Eriksrocks]

Can you access it at yourdomain.com/template/123.php?

It should work fine. I don't know maybe try using /public_html/template/123.php.

[MMJ]

to fix the problem I have put:

/home/mmj/public_html/template/123.php

but I want it to be cleaner than this

[Eriksrocks]

Then just use a relative path as I described above instead of an absolute one.

e.g. don't have a / at the beginning and use a ../ or multiple ../s if you have to.

[MMJ]

Question:

You know how on a lot of website they will have a link that ends with this "/#something" which jumps to another portion of the page. Well how do I work that?

EDIT:SOLVED

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by covert215

You can use HTML in a php file, but you can't use php in an HTML file.

You could always add it in .htaccess

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html