PHP Not Finding My header.html File In Directory

Question

I'm working on using PHP to give myself the same header, navigation and footer elements across all pages, but I have a problem; for some reason the .php file isn't recognizing the header.html file for a include("/header.html")

.php file

    <html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css">
<title>Sample Game Type</title>

</head>
<body>
    <?php include("/header.html"); ?>
    <div id="gamelisting"><!--Gametype Shortcuts-->
        <a href="http://www.website.ca/game-types/carpe.html">
            <div class="gametype">'Carpe' (also known as just Carpe)</div>
        </a>
        <div class="gametype">Other Game Here</div>
        <div class="gametype">Add more as neccessary</div>
    </div>
    <div class="gameinfo"><!--Information about game type-->
        <h2 style="text-align:center;"></h2><!--Name-->
        <h3>Description</h3>
        
        <h3>Objective</h3>
        
        <h3>Rules</h3>
        
    </div>
</body>

And then my header.html file.

    <html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<title>Header</title>
</head>
<body>      
    <li><!--Header Buttons-->
        <a href="http://www.website.ca">
            <div id="header">
                Home
            </div>
        </a>
        <a href="http://www.website.ca/mods.html">
            <div id="header">
                Mods
            </div>
        </a>
        <a href="http://www.website.ca/selling.html">
            <div id="header">
                Selling
            </div>
        </a>
        <a href="http://www.website.ca/gallery.html">
            <div id="header">
                Gallery
            </div>
        </a>
        <a href="http://www.website.ca/contact.html">
            <div id="header">
                Contact
            </div>
        </a>
    </li>
</body>

What am I doing wrong? The header.html file is in the root of my pubic_html file with the .php page I'm trying to connect with being in directory /game-types

Just an aside, you probably shouldn't have a html, head tags in the the header.html file since you already have those in your php file — user5051310
– user5051310, Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 0:23

skrilled · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-26 23:57:20Z

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When you use <?php include("/header.html"); ?> you are really saying look for a file named header.html at the root of my entire filesystem; not in your public_html directory (or even in a predefined include_path) with all your other files, like /path/to/public_html/header.html, you are literally looking for a file at /header.html.

It sounds like you want to include a file relative to the current directory.

Something like this:

include(__DIR__ . '/header.html');

or

include('header.html');

answered Oct 26, 2015 at 23:57

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7 Comments

SFN Over a year ago

So would I do better to say <?php include("/public_html/header.html"); ?> If that is, in fact the proper path from the root of my file system? I'm trying to make a single header.html file work for the entire site with multiple directories.

skrilled Over a year ago

__DIR__ is a constant which will return the current relative directory, so if you are in the php file /path/to/public_html/index.php and using __DIR__ it will return /path/to/public_html

SFN Over a year ago

Okay, however my I am in /path/to/public_html/game-types/webpage.php but I also have files in /path/to/public_html/ and other directories that I want to have access to this header file, not only those in the /path/to/public_html/ directory.

skrilled Over a year ago

Then link relative to those directories. I.e. if I have a file named lol.html directory above my current directory then I need to look at __DIR__ . '/../lol.html' or link via the full path. It's up to you.

Zsw Over a year ago

@SFN Put a . between _DIR_ and '/public_html/header.html'.

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