Question

I restructured my already working code. My earlier directory structure was as follows:

• web
  • css
    • style.css
  • model
    • db_functions.inc
  • view
    • view_functions.inc
  • controller
  • index.php

Here is the code snippet which was working:

<?php
    $pageTitle = "Citee.me";

    //include view functions
    include ('view/view_functions.inc');
    //incldue db functions
    include ('model/db_functions.inc');
    doHtmlHeader($pageTitle);
    doBody();
    testMySQL();
    doHtmlFooter();
?>

I now restructured the code to be:

• web
  • model
    • db_functions.inc
  • view
    • view_functions.inc
  • controller
• public
  • css
    • style.css
  • js
  • images
  • index.php

Now I modified my index.php code to be as follows (i commented out the db functions to narrow down the problem):

 <?php
    $pageTitle = "Citee.me";

    //include view functions
    include ('/citee/web/view/view_functions.inc');
    //incldue db functions
    //include ('./model/db_functions.inc');
    doHtmlHeader($pageTitle);
    //doBody();
    //testMySQL();
    doHtmlFooter();
?>

I get the error:

PHP Warning:  include(/citee/web/view/view_functions.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/citee/public/index.php on line 6

PHP Warning:  include(): Failed opening '/citee/web/view/view_functions.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /Library/WebServer/Documents/citee/public/index.php on line 6

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function doHtmlHeader() in /Library/WebServer/Documents/citee/public/index.php on line 9

Not sure why I am getting this error. Is my include path wrong? I tried different combinations but did not help.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

PHP complains that the path /citee/web/view/view_functions.inc doesn’t exist, and I also doubt it. Can you cd /citee/web/view/? I bet not.

If you are trying to access it, you can do it (and is a better practice, thinking about future deployments to different structured server file-systems in the future) with a relative file path.

So, instead of /citee/web/view/view_functions.inc, you can work from the path of index.php toward the correct relative path: ../web/view/view_functions.inc (.. stands for “go up a directory in the tree”, meaning it will go into your “citee” folder, and then access the “web” folder, and so on.)