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I am running a website locally.

I have one main folder, which contains all main coding for normal users, it is a file named main.php.

Inside this main folder I have another folder for the admin, which contains, for example, the file named announcement2.php. However, when I try to include it in the front page (index.php), an error appears, it is like the server cannot read the file inside the admin folder.

The error is:

Warning: include(../admin/announcement2.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\pods\main.php on line 85

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../admin/announcement2.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\pods\main.php on line 85

And here is the code to include the file in the admin folder from main.php

<td><?php include '../admin/announcement2.php'; ?></td>
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  • include 'admin/announcement2.php' Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 4:11
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    post your directories structure Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 5:48
  • change post title - the problem is not that the pages are user and admin, the problem is with php includes Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 5:49
  • What does echo getcwd() write? Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 6:01
  • are you able to open localhost/admin/announcement2.php?? or maybe it is localhost/pods/admin/announcement2.php Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 6:02

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This probably just means either (a) permissions are incorrect (web server can't read the file), or more likely, (b) the path is incorrect. If you echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; you'll see the path of the script, which would shed light on what path to actually use. But it's usually faster to try a few variations ...

include '../admin/announcement2.php';
include 'admin/announcement2.php';
include '../../admin/announcement2.php';

... until something works.

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thanks for your concern, I've paste your short path coding into my coding, but It's still not solve the problem.
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That probably wouldn't be very useful. I'd suggest you try this: 1) Make a php file named "test1.php" with only this in it: <?php include('test2.php'); ?> 2) Make a php file named "test2.php" with only this in it: <?php echo "Success!"; ?> 3) Load test1.php in a browser (localhost/test1.php) 4) If that succeeds, create a directory "test3", and move test2.php into it. Change test1.php to `<php include('test3\test2.php'); ?> and see if that works.
good work! 90% of debugging is figuring out where the bug is. it's important to check your assumptions at every step. good luck!
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