Php include not working

[MarkMushakian]

Hi folks,

I've recently decided to move my blog from it's folder into the main site root and use it as my main index page. All has gone well, but as I am now redesigning the default template to match my previous index page, I am not able to use this code to bring in my own personal sidebar for my site's navigation/links...

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<?php include("/siteRootHere/leftcolumn.php"); ?>

Before I made the transfer, I was trying things out on a test installation, and I was using the Default-PHP template - where the php include worked. However, after getting errors on things like the comments, I found a forum post by Garvin stating that the default template should be used instead - however, I'm not sure as to why the php include no longer works. Does Serendipity's default template only output html? I'm under the assumption now that this might be my problem - so how then can I use php?

Thanks for the time. I'm THIS close to finally having my site finally set up how I want, and I'm really glad I've been able to figure it out while still keeping Serendipity as my blog.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yeah, the default-php template is really meant for developers as a starting point; it is not ready to be used in production without adaptions.

PHP Code cannot be used in usual smarty code. To use PHP there, please check out this:

http://www.s9y.org/78.html#A4

HTH,
Garvin

[MarkMushakian]

Thank you very much, sir! I thought I'd exhausted every resource on the site looking for an answer - I guess I missed one .

[_jwc_]

Hi Garvin
I modified the config.inc.php how explained adding this first row

$serendipity['smarty']->security = false;

and adding

{include_php file="include.php"}

in my index.tpl but without any result.

the include.php file is at the same level of my index.tpl and doesn't have fancy code that can make troubles.

Does anyone have any idea why doesn't work?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You might need to provide a full path to your include.php script; else the local current directory might be different, so that smarty looks for "include.php" in the root directory of serendipity, not in the relative directory of the template.

Regards,
Garvin

[_jwc_]

Thanks Garvin,

I tried the following

{include_php file="http://mydomain.com/include/file.php"}

{include_php file="/include/file.php"}

{include_php file="include/file.php"}

but it still doesn't work.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hehe. All of them are wrong. You need to use file="/path/to/your/serendipity/and/full/include/file.php".

If you have s9y installed in /var/www/htdocs you would need to use file=/var/www/htdocs/templates/yourtemplate/file.php. You can find your whole path by looking at the s9y configuration, it's there in "full path to serendipity".

Regards,
Garvin

[_jwc_]

Apologize, it seem more difficult than mine expectation..

I used the full path.

I have a linux enviroment /home/myFolder/public_html/myFolder2/testxxx/

the url is
http://testxxx.mydomain.something

I wrote

{include_php file="/home/myFolder/public_html/myFolder2/testxxx/templates/myTemplate/include.php"}

is there any way to debugg it?

It still doesn't work

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

What about when you use this smarty code:

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{php}
$f = '/home/myFolder/public_html/myFolder2/testxxx/templates/myTemplate/include.php';
if (file_exists($f)) { echo 'File exists'; } else { echo 'File does not exist'; }
include $f
{/php}

Regards,
Garvin

[_jwc_]

You are great Garvin,

now is working.
debugging showed my mistekes :/

thanks a mil

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

What was it, was the path still wrong?

Regards,
Garvin

[_jwc_]

The path was wrong. I made a syntax error

During a tentative I have certainly wrong the path and then I gave for assumption it was right.

Debbugging show the label displaied with echo and I discovered the mistake.



Apologize for that