jQuery load() can't load php page with text file?

Question

jQuery code:

function sorting(){
  $(".search_result_employee").load("include/searchedResult.php", {sort: "SORT_DESC"});
}

php code:

$array = file("data/employees.txt");



$row = intdiv(count($array), 4);
if (count($array)%4 != 0){
    $row++;
}

//$row = round(count($array)/4);
$x = $z = 0;
for ($x; $x < $row; $x++){
    echo '<div class="row my-4">';
    for ($y=0; $y <= 3; $y++){
        if (isset($array[$z])) {
            $name = explode("| ", $array[$z]);
            $eName = $name[0];
            $eDepartment = $name[7];
            $eProfile = end($name);

            echo '
            <div class="col-md">
                <a href="displayInfo.php?name='."$eName".'" class="grey_bg p-2 m-1 employeeCard">
                    <img src="employeesProfile/'."$eProfile".'" alt="profile" class="profile"/>
                    '."$eName".'<br/>
                        <span>'."$eDepartment".'</span>
                </a>
            
            </div>
            ';
        }
        $z++;
        
    }
    echo '</div>';
}

First go in the page using

<?php include("include/searchedResult.php"); ?>

The page can found the file. Howver, after clicked the button, the jQuery load() the include/searchResu;t.php page. Then, the file doesn't exist. First time is working properly thensecond time can't. Anyone know how to solve this?

this is the error:

Warning: file(data/employees.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\COS30020\include\searchedResult.php on line 14

the include directory is likely not availabele to the browser - look in the network tab — mplungjan
– mplungjan, Commented Oct 4, 2021 at 8:48
Please share more details. Are you facing any error message? Also, the given code does not echo the loaded file, so adding it to the markup will obviously not work — Nico Haase
– Nico Haase, Commented Oct 4, 2021 at 8:50
My guess is that you have the php in two places and when you load from /include, the data is not in the same directory — mplungjan
– mplungjan, Commented Oct 4, 2021 at 8:58

M. Eriksson · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-04 09:09:52Z

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When including files in PHP, all relative paths will be relative from the first entry PHP-file.

If index.php includes searchResult.php, then file('data/employees.txt') will be relative from the index.php-file, not the searchResult.php-file.

If you call the searchResult.php-file directly, then it will be relative from searchResult.php (which then is the entry file).

Solve this by using the magic constant __DIR__, which contains the absolute path to the file it's written in.

So it should be:

file(__DIR__ . '/relative/path/from/this/file/data/employees.txt')

edited Oct 4, 2021 at 9:09

answered Oct 4, 2021 at 9:02

M. Eriksson

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2 Comments

Voon Tao Tan Over a year ago

this is what I want! Really thank you sir. Never think about this before

M. Eriksson Over a year ago

@VoonTaoTan - If the answer solved your issue, please accept it.

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