PHP - Question About 'include' Paths

First off, I am new to PHP, and want to learn it, but it seems very complicated. Where do I begin?

I found a script online for a contact form and I am having trouble making it work for my needs. I wanted to include a phone number field in the email message. This is what I have so far for the PHP, but it does not include the phone field in the body of the message. Everything else works fine. Apologize in advance if this message has been posted many times before.


<?php

$post = (!empty($_POST)) ? true : false;

if($post)
{
include 'functions.php';

$name = stripslashes($_POST['contactname']);
$email = trim($_POST['email']);
$subject = "New Message from your website"; 
$message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);
$phone = stripslashes($_POST['phone']);



$error = '';

// Check name

if(!$name)
{
$error .= 'Please enter your name.<br />';
}

// Check email

if(!$email)
{
$error .= 'Please enter an e-mail address.<br />';
}

if($email && !ValidateEmail($email))
{
$error .= 'Please enter a valid e-mail address.<br />';
}

// Check message (length)

if(!$message || strlen($message) < 15)
{
$error .= "Please enter your message. It should have at least 15 characters.<br />";
}


if(!$error)
{
$mail = mail(WEBMASTER_EMAIL, $subject, $message,
     "From: ".$name." <".$email.">\r\n"
    ."Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n"
    ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());


if($mail)
{
echo 'OK';
}

}
else
{
echo '<div class="notification_error">'.$error.'</div>';
}

}
?>

How can I use an include file that has a list of links in any directory at my website without breaking those links?

You can see it in action here...

The links in this directory work...

https://www.billelgin.com/primary-directory/

The links in this directory (being created from the same include file) do not work...

https://www.billelgin.com/primary-directory/subsection-one/

Obviously the problem is the include file is being called from different directories, so it's breaking the relative path links in the include file, but what can I do to fix it?

You can download the example directory structure here...

https://www.billelgin.com/EXAMPLE.zip

I think this is a simple question, but I'm just starting out and can't figure out how to do this exactly.

I'm making a demo site for a flower shop. The structure is as such (only listing the particular files in question - once this is done, the rest will be easy)

index.php -> inc_show_colors.php -> showColors.php

The index is to be standard through the site, loading include files into a main content area.  Clicking on a link loads inc_by_color.php (index.php -> index.php?page=by_color )

From there, one of the four colors is selected.

showColors.php contains switch statements for each color. I want to load showColors.php into the main content window when a color is selected, and I need to have it work for all four colors. I'm not sure how to do this, as you can't pass a variable to an include from what I understand.

What's the easiest way to go about this? Keep in mind this is an intro class and "best practices" are not necessary yet, just the simplest solution to get it working.

 I want each of these colors to link to another include file, which will load in its place in index.php.


index.php:
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<div id="maincontent">
<?php
if (isset($_GET['page'])) {
switch ($_GET['page']) {
case 'by_color':
include('includes/inc_by_color.php');
break;
case 'by_type':
include('includes/inc_by_type.php');
break;
case 'by_occasion':
include('includes/inc_by_occasion.php');
break;
case 'view_cart':
include('includes/inc_view_cart.php');
break;
case 'payment_options':
include('includes/inc_payment_options.php');
break;

case 'home_page':
default:
include('includes/inc_home.php');
break;
}
}
else 
include('includes/inc_home.php');

?>
</div>

inc_by_color.php:
The first link I tried doing in the way I thought would work, but it doesn't. It can't find the include file.
The second one works, kind of - but it just loads the page by itself, not into the maincontent div in index.php.
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<h1>Flowers Categorized by Color</h1>
<div class="picdivcontainer">
<div class="picdiv"><a href="index.php?page=red"><img src="images/image.png" width="90" height="90" alt="Red Flowers" />
  <p>Red</a></p></div>
<div class="picdiv"><a href="showColors.php?color=white"><img src="images/image.png" width="90" height="90" alt="White Flowers" /></a>
  <p><a href="showColors.php?color=white">White</a></p></div>
</div>

and showColors.php:
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if (isset($_GET['color'])) {
switch ($_GET['color']) {
case 'red':
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM flowers WHERE color='red'") or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
// Set and trim strings and show the resulting flowers from query
$flowername = $row['name'];
$flowerimage = $row['image'];
$image_path = "images/";
$flowername = str_replace('_', ' ', $flowername);
$flowername = ucwords($flowername);
?> <div class="picdiv"><p><?php echo $flowername."<br />";
$flowerimage = str_replace(' ', '_', $flowerimage);
echo "<img src='images/" . $row['image'] . "' />";
?></p></div> <?php
} 
break;
I realize that showColors.php is probably a really messy way of doing this, but I just need to get it functioning ASAP for now.

The PHP code sends me an email from the server, but the user input is empty or "blank". I only receive: "From: \ Email: \ Subject: \ Message: " and that's it.

How do I fix my PHP and/or HTML code to receive user input from the form? Attached is my existing HTML and PHP code that doesn't send me any "user input" from the form.

Thanks to anyone who can help!!

hello,

i cant see why my navigation file path is not working

im working on my localhost:  http://localhost:8888/djsonrotation

my initialize file is located at http://localhost:8888/djsonrotation/includes/initialize.php

my navigation code is located at http://localhost:8888/djsonrotation/pages/pageContent/navigation/ddAccordion.php

my js is located at http://localhost:8888/djsonrotation/js/ddaccordion.js



if i put these on my ddAccordion.php it works


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to find my initialize file
<?PHP require_once("../../../includes/initialize.php"); ?>

to find my js file
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../../js/ddaccordion.js">


this is how my initialize file looks
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<?PHP
defined('DS') ? null : define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
defined('SITE_DOMAIN') ? null : define('SITE_DOMAIN', 'http://localhost/djsonrotation');
defined('SITE_ROOT') ? null : define('SITE_ROOT', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].DS.'djsonrotation');
defined('LIB_PATH') ? null : define('LIB_PATH', SITE_ROOT.DS.'includes');

defined('ELEMENTS') ? null : define('ELEMENTS', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].DS.'djsonrotation'.DS.'pages'.DS.'contElements');





the problem is i can't seem to change ../../../  in to a file path

like this does not work
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<?PHP require_once(include(LIB_PATH.DS."initialize.php")); ?>


i tried a couple of different file paths for my js file but they dont work either
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<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php include(SITE_DOMAIN.DS."js".DS."ddaccordion.js"); ?>">
or
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<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php include(SITE_ROOT.DS."js".DS."ddaccordion.js"); ?>">


i guess i could just use ../../../

but why are the include paths not working ????

thanks

I would like to better understand relative and absolute paths when rewriting URLs.  My virtual host configuration is shown below.

I wish the server to see something like:

https://example.com?page=page1&controller=controller1&data1=123&data2=321

Given the rewrites as shown in my virtual host, what would be the proper URL in the browser?  One of these (note the ? and &), or something different?

https://example.com/page1/controller1?data1=123&data2=321
https://example.com/page1/controller1&data1=123&data2=321

Next, if I enter one of the URLs, how do relative paths to images, etc work?  Would the browser think it is in the root directory, or in /page1/controller1?  I had problems with relative paths, and changed to absolute paths, and it fixed the problem, but I wish to better understand what is happening.   On a side note, I would appreciate any critique of my virtual host configuration.  My goal is for all requests to example.com to redirect to https://example.com, for only https://example.com (no subdomain) to redirect to https://www.example.com, and do the rewriting of page and controller.   Thank you

# Note that if a virtual ServerName is not found (i.e. IP 192.168.1.200), Apache defaults to first virtual host.
# Note that if ServerName is set to one of the virtual host ServerName's in the Second Section, it doesn't work (why?)

# Handle just example.com to http
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias *.example.com
    Redirect / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

# Handle just example.com without subdomains
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName example.com
    # ServerAlias example.com
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCipherSuite SSLv3:TLSv1:+HIGH:!SSLv2:!MD5:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:!eNULL:!aNULL
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/example_key.pem
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/example_startssl.crt
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/sub.class1.server.ca.pem
    Redirect / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias *.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example/html

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCipherSuite SSLv3:TLSv1:+HIGH:!SSLv2:!MD5:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:!eNULL:!aNULL
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/example_key.pem
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/example_startssl.crt
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/sub.class1.server.ca.pem

    <Directory "/var/www/example/html">

        allow from all
        Options +Indexes

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

            RewriteEngine On

            RewriteBase /

            # Are these lines necessary, or should I create a virtual host for http on port 80 instead?
            RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
            RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,R,L]

            ## If the request is for a valid directory, file, or link, don't do anything
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
            RewriteRule ^ - [L]

            #remove the trailing slash
            RewriteRule (.+)/$ $1

            # If you add this first rule to support views, be sure to remove the QSA flag from the second rule (maybe not required since the first rule has the L flag)
            #replace mypage/mycontroller with index.php?page=mypage&controller=mycontroller
            RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1&controller=$2 [L,QSA]
            #replace mypage with index.php?page=mypage
            RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This topic has been moved to Miscellaneous.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=348545.0

Hey everyone,

Im writing some code that has to work out a route based on linking airports and output all the flights it takes to get there, tried searching just dont really know what to search for

The data table looks like this

ID, Origin, Destination, DatetimeDeparting, DatetimeArriving, Price
1, BKK, CNX, 2010-10-14 12:00:00, 2010-10-14 14:00:00, 125
2, STN, BKK, 2010-10-13 18:00:00, 2010-10-13 22:00:00, 300
etc.

What is the easiest way of working out the path from STN to CNX via BKK?

UPDATE: Just to make it more interesting there will be instances where there is more than 1 path eg. STN -> KUL -> BKK -> CNX

I have a directory in public WWW. The files throughout the directory have many PHP includes amongst themselves. For example, the file "registration.php" begins with require('../parameters.php');

The directory is complex, like this:

/Public WWW directory/
        /My_Directory
            parameters.php
            another_reg.php
                /app
                    files.inc
                     files2.inc
                    /morefiles
                    another.inc
                    another2.inc
                    /css
                mycss.css
                /pages
                config.php
                registration.php
            
My question: I want the entire directory moved out of reach above the public WWW, but I want "registration.php" to go into the public WWW.

How would I do that without breaking all the include paths? (I know the solution is probably a one-liner involving __DIR__  ... but I can't seem to code it so it works).

Thank you!!

 

I am using the free web host http://www.byethost2.com/ and need help figuring out where and how to make my php files to?!

Currently I have the following Config file...
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<?php
// Build Date: 2011-12-17 1:15pm

// Website Environment
define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
//define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');


// Web Root (aka Document Root) (**Physical Location)
define('WEB_ROOT', ENVIRONMENT === 'development'
? '/Users/user1/Documents/DEV/++htdocs/05_Debbie/'
: '/var/www/vhosts/MySite.com/httpdocs/');


// Base URL (**Virtual Location)
define('BASE_URL', ENVIRONMENT === 'development'
? 'http://local.debbie/'
: 'http://www.MySite.com/');
?>
What am I supposed to use for WEB_ROOT and BASE_URL on this free hosting site?!


Currently, to view my test website you go to...
http://www.doubledee.byethost2.com/

I suppose that could be "BASE_URL", but for where things are physically stored so I can redefine "WEB_ROOT" I have no clue...   

Help!

Thanks,


Debbie

I have a form that lets a user upload an image, aswell as another file. I want the image to go into the images directory, and the pdf file to go into the PDF directory once uploaded. The names of the files will then be uploaded to the database.

At the moment I can get the image to upload to the database and directory, but the PDF is only uploading the name to the database, it is not going into the PDF directory aswell. I'm not sure if there is a way you can do this, I am trying to use "move_uploaded_file()" to physically move the files but not sure if you can use it twice.

here is my code, if you can point anything out or where im going wrong that would be great.
<?php

include "include/conn.php";

include "include/session.php";
?>

<?php


// Check to see if the type of file uploaded is a valid image type
function is_valid_type($file)
{
       
        $valid_types = array("image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/bmp", "image/gif");

        if (in_array($file['type'], $valid_types))
                return 1;
        return 0;
}




function showContents($array)
{
        echo "<pre>";
        print_r($array);
        echo "</pre>";
}

//Target path for image
$TARGET_PATH = dirname(__FILE__) . "/images/";

//Target path for PDF files
$PDF_TARGET_PATH = dirname(_FILE_) . "/PDF/";

// Get POST variables

$image = $_FILES['image'];

$pdf = $_FILES['pdf'];

$date= date("Y-m-d ");
$time = date("H:i:s");

$title = $_POST['title'];
$title_escape = mysql_escape_string($title);
$title_slashes = stripslashes($title_escape);

$content = $_POST['content'];

$image['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($image['name']);

$pdf['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($pdf['name']);


//image path
$TARGET_PATH .= $image['name'];

//PDF path
$PDF_TARGET_PATH .= $pdf['file_name'];

// Make sure all the fields from the form have inputs
if ($image['name'] == "" )
{
        $_SESSION['error'] = "All fields are required";
        header("Location: add_media.php");
        exit;
}

// Verify file is an image
if (!is_valid_type($image))
{
        $_SESSION['error'] = "You must upload a jpeg, gif, or bmp";
        header("Location: add_media.php");
        exit;
}



// move file into the directory and the path name into the database / along with the rest of the form fields
if (move_uploaded_file($image['tmp_name'], $TARGET_PATH))
{
        if(move_uploaded_file($pdf['tmp_name'], $PDF_TARGET_PATH))
{
$sql = "INSERT INTO media_table(title, text, time, date, image, PDF) VALUES ('" . $title_slashes . "','" . $content . "', '" . $time . "', '" . $date . "', '" . $image['name'] . "', '" . $pdf['name'] . "')";
        $result = mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());
        header("Location: add_media.php");
        exit;
}
else
{
print "did not upload";
}
}
else
{
        
        $_SESSION['error'] = "Could not upload file.  Check read/write persmissions on the directory";
     
        exit;
}
?>

First of all, does anyone know of some good documentation to better understand cookies?  I've gone through the PHP manual, and can find how to use PHP to work with cookies, but not how cookies really work.   In particular, it is my understanding that if the domain is .mydomain.com, then mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com, or whatEver.mydomain.com, cookies could be set for each, and available for each, right?   If path was /, cookies will be sent for mydomain.com, mydomain.com/bla, and mydomain.com/bla/bla. If path was /bla, cookies will be not be sent for mydomain.com, but will be sent for mydomain.com and mydomain.com/bla/bla.   Also, what would be the impact if Apache rewrote bla.mydomain.com to mydomain.com/bla?   Please feel free to provide any other insight on this topic.   Thank you

Hi all,

How do I get the following paths from the array separately in a foreach loop?
level.dat
level.dat_old
session.lock
uid.data

If I use

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foreach($outer_dir as $key=>$val)
[code]

then I get a warning because its returning the folder as 'Array'. The files still upload, as well as a single file called Array.

Can i just strip these from the foreach?

[code]
Array ( [data] => Array ( ) [level.dat] => level.dat [level.dat_old] => level.dat_old [players] => Array ( [herghost.dat] => herghost.dat ) [region] => Array ( [r.-1.0.mcr] => r.-1.0.mcr [r.0.0.mcr] => r.0.0.mcr ) [session.lock] => session.lock [uid.dat] => uid.dat ) herghost.dat

Many thanks from a confused user

Hi guys,

Just a quick one - this is more of a bit of a challenge than a problem!

I'm pretty good with PHP - I'm definitely not a beginner, but I've come across a problem I've not yet been able to solve satisfactorily.

Essentially, I am trying to write a really good, solid OOP library that I can hand out for people to use for CMS-driven websites, and I want to literally just upload some files and have access to some variables... simple enough.

But, my snagging point came when I was writing the image library, which handles uploading files and moving them from place to place. These functions as you know usually require an absolute server path - not a relative path and certainly not a URL, so I wanted to place something in my config file that gets the base URL, puts the relative path in one variable (e.g. mysite.com/directory would give /directory) and the server path in another (e.g. mysite.com/directory might give var/www/mysite/www/directory).

Now I might just be being foolish and overlooking something, but I've used HTTP_HOST, DOCUMENT_ROOT etc to get this information, but I only want to get the base directory that the application resides in - usually with installed software sure as WordPress you have to specify which directory the files are going to sit in, which I wondered if you could gauge automatically?

Any help would be appreciated - I've tried as many clever approaches as I could think of, and the only one I can think of now is setting the variables based on, say, installtion.php since I know the name of the file and where it resides, I can strip out all folders minus the filename, which would give me the root directory, but that seems a little fiddly to me?

Someone must have done this before and have a nice clean solution to the problem? I'm at a loss anyway, and I figured it might be a fair challenge to do?

Thanks,
Luke

my directory on my mamp server looks like this;

root/website/index.php

I also have some files in a folder like this

root/website/pages/files.php

My include code is this
include("functions.php");

When I try to include a file from the 'website' folder from a page in the 'pages' folder. It gives me errors that look like this.

Warning: include(functions.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /website/pages/contact.php on line 2

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'functions.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php') in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/website/pages/contact.php on line 2



That's what it looks like.. I can't get it working.