PHP - Include Checkbox Value

Hi

Still a new comer when it comes to PHP.

I have a situation where I want to use an include within an include and I am having trouble with my file paths.

My main header include, includes everything for each page of my site, beyond the opening of the body to incorporate my navigation etc conditionally loading in css, and loading in titles and meta data etc depending on the page in question.

This header needs to reference another include called the-pod.php which is required for every page, the only trouble is I want to use / to reference the root of the server and this is breaking my code. I can't use ../../ etc as its a different path depending on where the master file is located.

So my question is how do I get around this?

Can the root of the server or path to the root be stored in a variable? and if so how would I write this.

Any tips / advice will be greatly appreciated.

Hi Guys.. Merry Christmas

Im kinda new to this fantastic world of PHP and i have a little problem i hope you can help me with.

Im trying to build a website where I use include() to genereate my content. On my index.php i have a menu which includes
content in a content div from external .php pages, my structure kinda goes like this.. (simplified)

site/
   index.php
   content/
       fronpage.php
       products.php
       contact.php

The HTML looks like this.

<div id="menu">
    <ul>
          <li><a href="index.php?page=frontpage">frontpage</a></li>
          <li><a href="index.php?page=products">frontpage</a></li>
          <li><a href="index.php?page=contact">frontpage</a></li>
    </ul>         
</div               

<div id="main">

<?php
     include('/content/'.$_GET['page'].'.php');
?>

</div>

This all works very fine, but my problem is, can I have a include inside an already included page?
I would like to have a menu on my products.php site, but that page is already included from above,
and i would like the menu on the products.php site to stay as the content from the nested include
changes with input from the /products folder.

my idea was something like this.

site/
   index.php
   content/
      frontpage.php
      products.php
      contact.php
      products/
         product1.php
         product2.php


the HTML on the index.php is the same as above and then i would add the include() on the
products.php page, so its kinda the same thing, but one inside the other.

HTML inside the products.php folder

<div id="sub_menu">
    <ul>
          <li><a href="#">frontpage</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">frontpage</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">frontpage</a></li>
    </ul>         
</div               

<div id="sub_main">

<?php
     include('/content/products'.$_GET['#'].'.php');
?>

</div>

I dont know how to link to the new files so they will be included while the first include still stays on the page.

Any of you know how and if this can be done? Or maybe at better way to do it?

Hope this made sense, my first PHP question

Thanks

CanI put one INCLUDE statement INSIDE of another INCLUDE statement?

When I put this above all else in my document and test it offline, all I see is code in the browser. But when I test it on my web server, I can view the markup and whatnot.

Does anyone know why this is?

I am fairly new to PHP. I tried searching for answers on Google and in this forum, but I found no solutions.

Problem
I used PHP include as a way of navigating through my website. I did this so if I changed the design of the website, I don't have to edit each page. The function is similar to iframes.
Yesterday I developed a tip calculator (calculates how much tip you need to give to the waiter or waitress based on your bill). However I've noticed after I press "submit", it sends the visitor to a page that shows only the results. I want to show the results within my website design.

Screen shots:

I input the data. Notice the gray background and the navigation bar.

After I press "Submit Order", it shows the results but the results aren't within my website's design. (Notice the white background).

Question:
How can I incorporate the results from the tip calculator in my design after pressing the "Submit Order" button?

Here is the code on the main page of my website (HTML/CSS with PHP)
P.S For links in the navigation section, I used : ?id=name
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>MV Book</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>

<body>


<div id="wrapper">
<div id="wrapper2">
<div id="header"></div> <!-- End of Header -->

<div id="navi">
<ul>
<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="?id=tip">Tip calculator</a></li>
<li><a href="?id=orderform">Tip calculator</a></li>

</ul>
</div>
<!-- End of Navi -->
<div id="content">



<?php
$id = $_GET['id'] ;
 switch($id) { default: include('cutenews/show_news.php');
break; case "orderform": include('orderform.html');
break; case "tip": include('tip.php');
} ?>


</div> <!-- End of Content -->
</div> <!-- End of Wrapper 2 -->
</div> <!-- End of Wrapper -->

</body>
</html>

And this is the code that is on the page where I input the code:

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<form action="processtip.php" method="POST">

<table border="0">
  <tr>
  <td>Bill Amount</td>
  <td align="center"><input type="text" name="billamount" size="10"
     maxlength="10" id="billamount"></td>
     </tr>
     
  <td>Tip Percent (%)</td>
  <td align="center"><input type="text" name="tippercent" size="10"
     maxlength="10" id="tippercent"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Number Of People (Split)</td>
  <td align="center"><input type="text" name="people" size="10"
     maxlength="10" id="people" /></td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Submit Order"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>


This is the PHP Code that process the input data and displays the results (processtip.php) :

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<?PHP
  $billamount = $_POST['billamount'];
  $tipnumber = $_POST['tipnumber'];
  $people = $_POST['people'];
?>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Emaj's Tip Calculator</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Emaj's Tip Calculator</h1>
<h2>Thanks for using my Online Tip Calculator</h2>

<?php

if ($billamount < 0) {
  echo "<p> You can't have a negative number. Does the restuarant owe you money?";
  exit;


} else {

  if ($billamount == 0) {
echo "What's the point of using a tip calculator if you didn't order anything?<br />";
exit;

  }

  if ($billamount > 0) {
echo "<p> Your bill is $".$billamount;

  }
}


$tippercent = 0;
$tippercent = $tipnumber/100;

$tipamount = 0;
$tipamount = $billamount * $tippercent;
echo "<p> Total tip is $".$tipamount;


$totalamount = 0;
$totalamount = $billamount + $tipamount;
echo "<p>Total bill (Tip included) is $".$totalamount;

echo "<p>You are splitting the Total Bill with ".$people." people.";

$indperson = 0;
$indperson = $totalamount/$people;
echo "<p>Each individual person pays $".$indperson;

?>



If there is a thread that has a similar problem with a solution, can you please post a link to it? Thank you and I apologize in advance if there's a duplicate thread.

-Emaj