RE: [cobalt-users] PHP include() error...RAQ3 problem?

["Cobalt" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I take it line 16 is the line with the include() statement?  It looks
>properly formatted.  Read the first paragraph on
>http://www.php.net/manual/function.include.php.  It may apply to you,
>though I'm not familiar with the configuration option mentioned.  Also,
>make sure you aren't missing a ";" or "}" or something similiar on a line
>before the include() statement.
>
>> The line that is receiving the parse error is the line after the </html>
>> tag.  It does not look to be a programming error but some kind of
>> configuration error.  I have been going back and forth on the PHP mailing
>> list and it looks like my syntax and programming is correct.
>
>Scott, have you done any testing to ensure that you can include a file
>using a URL?  Create a PHP script that only has an include() statement and
>include a URL that just has something like "<b>Bold text</b>" in it.  If
>it doesn't work then you probably are just unable to include a file using
>a URL.  I just tested on a RaQ2 running PHP4.0.1pl2 and I'm able to
>include a file using a URL.  I never tried using PHP3.  As an alternative
>you can use fopen() and fgets() to achieve the same thing as include().

O.K. so it turned out to by a syntax/programming error...After a day of
playing with it...going back and forth with people on the PHP lists...trying
everything under the sun...I figured it out.

If anyone cares...here is the problem:

I was using

<?
	include("/home/sites/site#/file.html");
?>

Code looks correct?..right...wrong.  It turns out that you either have to
either use single quotes:

	include('/home/sites/site#/file.html');

or not parenthases:

	include "/home/sites/site#/file.html";

Many great appoligies for any time wasted on this one.  But with every
problem....there is opportunity for knowledge.  And I can safely say that I
will NEVER forget how to do an include() statement in PGP.

Sorry again for what turned out to be an "off topic" post.

Scott