Php Include help, needed

http://www.wildgamehunting101.com/hunting/datas/theindex.php

Warning: main(datas/leaderboard.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wildgame/public_html/hunting/datas/theindex.php on line 29

Warning: main(datas/leaderboard.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wildgame/public_html/hunting/datas/theindex.php on line 29

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'datas/leaderboard.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /home/wildgame/public_html/hunting/datas/theindex.php on line 29

could someone explain why I am getting these error codes/

I have my css file and config.php uploaded into the datas folder,

permissions for both files are 644 which is the default permission,

just learning PHP and would appreciate some input if possible.
thanks

 

Just looking at the directory locations ,
just put leaderboard.php in the include if its in the same directory. If its in a subfolder from the calling file, you have to include that directory.
example: index.php
include (leaderboard.php)
if same directory,
if leaderboard.php is in /datas use
include (datas/leaderboard.php)
or
include (./datas/leaderboard.php)
Pieces of info needed would be the include line for that file and its location in relation to the file.

 

I entered the full url for the leaderboard and now I get this error;

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: googleads() in /home/wildgame/public_html/hunting/datas/leaderboard.php on line 4

Is this the file I have to work with to fix ?

/ google_ads.php
function googleAds($ad_format, $color_border="FFFFFF", $color_bg="FFFFFF", $color_link="D22225", $color_url="000000", $color_text="000000") {
global $show_google, $adsense_pub, $adsense_channel, $site, $templatefoldername, $sitexml;


thanks for your help

 

Leaderboard.php would have to include the google_ads.php file. Where is it located? In relation to the leaderboard.php file?

 

.wildgamehunting101.com/hunting/datas/google_function.php

.wildgamehunting101.com/hunting/datas/leaderboard.php

these are the files--

 

Should just have to put include(google_functions.php) in the leaderboard.php. Since they are in the same directory.

 

sorry, not sure how i would do that . Could you explain further?

 

Just open up leaderboard.php, at the top, inside the php brackets type in
include("google_functions.php");
First check to see if its listed already and that its like that.

Here's tizag's reference on includes:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/include.php

 

thanks for the tizag link-

I think I'm going to go back to square one with this project.
every correction I make, just opens up another error.
I should be able to just insert the includes ,as is , without making changes.
This is just a niche-in-a-box site.
Obviously I have missed something along the way.

I think maybe I should put this out for a bid or would you be interested to give me a price to set up this page?
Anyway thanks for all your help