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RedBaron wrote:I'm deep in code now ..

Whats the difference between the following:

require( dirname(__FILE__).'/function.php' )

and

include('./function.php')

Welcome to the exciting world of PHP coding!

I understand you've moved past this (and in fact, the site seems to be working out pretty well!), but I thought I would answer your question anyway just in case you were interested.

In PHP, the period is used to join two strings together. dirname(__FILE__) is the string indicating the directory the current file is running from. That might be something like "/www/mypath". So the first command would try to load up "/www/mypath/function.php", and die with an error message if it couldn't (that's what require() does).

In the second command, the period is inside the quotes. When you're talking about files, there are two special directories: "." and "..". "." means "the directory I'm in right now". ".." means "the directory just before this one". So that second command tries to load up function.php from the current directory. It might print an error, but the script would continue if it failed; that's the difference between include() and require().

Anyway. Glad you and Don got things working.

Wow that was a great explanation of the coding elements - "Alles Klar" as they say

Your previous post mentioned a .htaccess file - how do I create this file, where do I put it and how is it called.
Sorry again if that sounds a little "slow" of me - things are moving on apace on the server side .. finally got hold of a decent "now playing" plugin and its posting succesfully to sites such as twitter and facebook.

The linkback however says fuzzyfm.com (and not fuzzyfm.com/serendipity)

Currently I have included the following line in the default index.html file

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=http://fuzzyfm.com/serendipity/">

but this is far from ideal even though I set the time to "0" (try it - its rubbish!)

Once again - all help in creating the .htaccess file gratefully appreciated ...

Trevor

Trevor - I suggest you not worry about that redirect just yet.... that is easy to do, and can be done after your other issues.

Are you saying I have "issues"?

hehe

RedBaron wrote:Are you saying I have "issues"?

hehe

Dude - we ALL have issues!!!

Don et al.

I definitely need that redirect today - (.htaccess) please .. OK. .. pretty please!

It doesnt look good for the discerning Radio listener, and the reloading page will make people nervous

I have money ... hehe

redirect in place.

Don Chambers wrote:redirect in place.

You're a star DC!