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tvtoday · Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 6

My site is http://www.tvtoday.co.uk/

I thought that the PHP include function could be used just like an SSI.

So I dropped the following line of code into my index.php:

<?php include("http://www.tvtoday.co.uk/notes.php") ?>

(nb there's nothing wrong with notes.php, it works fine).

And got this error message:

Warning: Failed opening 'http://www.tvtoday.co.uk/notes.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in /home/t/v/tvtoday/public_html/index.php on line 41

What have I done wrong? Do I need to CHMOD notes.php?

thanks
Nick

.Chris · Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 186 Location: Hawaii

tvtoday · Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 6

Tried both, neither work.

Nick

.Chris · Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 186 Location: Hawaii

ok how about

tvtoday · Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 6

With a bit of tinkering I've determined that the problem is more complicated than I initially suggest.

There's nothing wrong with the php command I have used.

This is what I'm trying to do:

I want to have a 'thought-stream' category and I want to have it running down a column, separate from my other posts.

So I have excluded category 13 (the thought-stream) from the general list, and written a php file to show only category 13 - that's what notes.php.

The problem, I think, is to do with the way the mySQL database works, and the loop.

I think that the answer lies in editing variables within the notes.php file - the best I have got so far is this:

<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */ $blog=1; $cat="13"; include ("blog.header.php"); ?><!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>


<?php { start_b2(); ?>

<?php the_title(); ?>
 <?php the_content("","1","") ?>
 <?php the_date("jS F") ?>, <?php the_time("hh:mm"); ?>

<!-- // this is just the end of the motor - don't touch that line either Smile

-->
<?php } ?>

As you can see, I have excluded the 'while' command, etc, from the start_b2() line - the result of this is that the file produces a comma and some whitespace.

Aaaaaargh.