How to use a path in PHP's include function

Asked May 22 '21 at 22:14

Active May 22 '21 at 22:38

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hope that you're doing well, I want to use the include function in my PHP code to summon a part of the page, the problem is that the PHP page is in another folder so in order to bring it I have to do ../folder/page.php, here what I did:
include '../teacher/sidebar.php';

But it didn't work they are showing me Message: include(./teacher/sidebar.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory Could anybody please help me? Thank you in advance

Here there are the paths:

The mother page where I want to use the include function: C:\AppServ\www\ci\application\views\backend\grades\grades.php

And this is the path for the desired page to be included C:\AppServ\www\ci\application\views\backend\teacher\sidebar.php

edited May 22 '21 at 22:38

asked May 22 '21 at 22:14

Custom Gumball

You will have to show your dir structure and what files are where. – AbraCadaver May 22 '21 at 22:20
Show us **full** system paths for both files, the one you are including in and the second that you want to include. – biesior May 22 '21 at 22:20
also read: [CI Loader Class](https://codeigniter.com/userguide3/libraries/loader.html?highlight=load%20view#CI_Loader::view) as loading a view is most likely what you want? – Vickel May 22 '21 at 22:23
Just paths!!! :D we don't need your ASCII graphics with the tree ;) – biesior May 22 '21 at 22:29
I put the directory path guys – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:30
Oh I'm sorry, my bad – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:31
This is the path for the home page where I want to use the include C:\AppServ\www\ci\application\views\backend\grades\grades.php – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:31
And this is the path for the desired page to be included C:\AppServ\www\ci\application\views\backend\teacher\sidebar.php – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:32
`include '../../teacher/sidebar.php';` is the correct relative path in this case. And as other suggested you should edit your own question instead of adding comments. – biesior May 22 '21 at 22:34
@CustomGumball edit your question to include the paths. – Progrock May 22 '21 at 22:34
Paths can be relative to your current working directory. Which gets somewhat confusing if you are trying to call an include from inside an include. You might want to include the output of the following: `var_dump(getcwd(), get_include_path(), get_included_files());` from where you are trying to call your include. – Progrock May 22 '21 at 22:40
I wrote what path you should use, try it, also use Progrock's suggestion to learn more. – biesior May 22 '21 at 22:41
`=$this->load->view('backend/teacher/sidebar','',true)?>` anywhere in your other view – Vickel May 22 '21 at 22:42
@biesior it didn't work :'( – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:44
@Progrock could you please clarify? This complicated function is new for me – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:45
@Vickel LOL it worked! I don't know why i didn't think of it as simple as this – Custom Gumball May 22 '21 at 22:46
@Vickel please write an answer, best with explain, so it can be accepted. – biesior May 22 '21 at 22:50
@biesior I'm right now looking for a dupe, but couldn't find a good one yet... give me some more minutes... or I write an answer – Vickel May 22 '21 at 22:51
Fair enough! @Vickel – biesior May 22 '21 at 22:52
@biesior I found the canonical one – Vickel May 22 '21 at 22:53

How to use a path in PHP's include function

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