include problem

so i playing around with php and im having a problem...

Im trying to access the folder 'includes' from my main directory using

include ('/includes/header.php');

PHP:

which returns the error

Warning: include(/includes/header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/cp/public_html/j7/bt/index.php on line 3

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/includes/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/j7/public_html/cp/bt/index.php on line 3

Code (markup):

now when i access the 'includes' files from another folder, like so

include ('../includes/header.php');

PHP:

it works just fine and things are happy

can anyone tell me what the problem could be?
Is there a fix for accessesing lower level folders with includes?
i've also tried removing the "/" to make

include ('includes/header.php');

PHP:

that returns no error but doesn't render correctly

 

you could try the full path:

include ("/home/cp/public_html/j7/bt/includes/header.php");

PHP:

 

*louie* is correct. When you try to pull up the include file as you did in a subfolder 'it' will expect the includes directory to be within that subfolder

 

Try this out.

set_include_path('includes');
include 'header.php';

PHP:

Should work from any subdirectory

 

I tried this on one of my pages and it works fine for me.

 

thanks guys, fixed

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