php include not working

Question

I’ve got a PHP file with a switch case to include different files depending on a variable $view.

This was working perfectly when I was running this on WAMP server on my local machine. But now I have uploaded to a web server and the include functions have just stopped working. Nothing is getting included.

switch($view)
    {
    case 'AddToCart':
        echo 'adding to cart';
        if($_POST['qty']>0)
        {
            if(!isset($_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]))
            {
                $_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]=$_POST['qty'];
            }
            else
            {
                $_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]+= $_POST['qty'];
            }   
        }
        header('Location:index.php');
        break;

    case 'UpdateCart':
        echo 'updating cart...';
        if(isset($_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]))
        {
            if($_POST['updateqty']>0)
                $_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]=$_POST['updateqty'];
            else
                unset($_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]);
        }   
        header('Location:index.php?view=ViewCart');
        break;

    case 'ViewCart':
        echo 'This is the full feature cart.';
        include('models\cart.php');
        include('models\fullcart.php');
        break;

    case 'Checkout':
        echo 'reached checkout';
        include('models\finalcart.php');

        break;

    case 'ClearCart':
        echo 'Clear cart reached';
        $_SESSION['cart']=array();
        $_SESSION['total_items']=0;
        $_SESSION['total_price']=0;
        header('Location:index.php');
        break;

    case 'RemoveItem':
        echo 'Removing item '.$_POST['id'].'<br><br>';
        unset($_SESSION['cart'][$_POST['id']]);
        header('Location:index.php?view=ViewCart');
        break;

    default:
        echo 'index page...lalalalalal...<br>';
        include('models\cart.php');
        include('models\catalog.php');
    }

I did phpinfo on the webserver and found it’s running PHP version 5.2.17.

Whats going wrong?

Are the files there in the correct paths? Do they have the correct permissions? Do you get any error/warning messages? — nico
– nico, Commented Mar 6, 2011 at 10:45
Off the top of my head, this could be a directory separator issue since Window uses \ and Unix /. However, have you got your error reporting turned on? — Russell Dias
– Russell Dias, Commented Mar 6, 2011 at 10:47

Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-06 10:46:27Z

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Hope you know not to echo/print anything before you send headers. And can you check what your server os is, I use /, not \, in file paths

answered Mar 6, 2011 at 10:46

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user434885 Over a year ago

yes that was it the slashes... many thanks good sir... my stupidity, the slashes are the first thing i should have checked but it never occurred to me that there may be a problem with the slashes...

Simon · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-06 10:49:49Z

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I guess your web server is running linux or another unix-like system, which uses forward slashes instead of backslashes as directory seperator. So you have to replace the slashes in the include paths:

include('models\fullcart.php');

becomes

include('models/fullcart.php');

and so on...

answered Mar 6, 2011 at 10:49

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Muhamad Bhaa Asfour · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-06 10:45:46Z

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check the included file permissions i think they should be 755 or 775

answered Mar 6, 2011 at 10:45

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