Include and arrays

Dalsor · 07-24-2002, 10:18 PM

Greetings.

Slight problem with pulling data from arrays stored in an included file. If I store the arrays in the same PHP file that is displaying the information, this works fine, but when I store the arrays in a seperate file and include() it, it can't find the data. I'm trying to keep all the arrays in one file by themselves to make changing things easier. Here's what I have come up with.

This is an excerpt from index.php

PHP Code:


			
<!--

Function: draw_body

Include: none

Purpose: Draw body text

//-->



<?php include('arrays.php'); ?>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="2">

  <tr>

  <td class="body2" height="100">

  <?php

  for ( $i = 0; $i <= $warders; $i++ )

  {

  echo $warArray[$i];

  echo "<br>";

  }

  ?>

  </td>

  </tr>

</table>

This is from arrays.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php

    $warArray[0] = 'Asandir';

    $warArray[1] = 'Caellach';

    $warArray[2] = 'Caldamus';

    $warArray[3] = 'Drizzt';

    $warArray[4] = 'Flarn';

    $warArray[5] = 'Jaryd';

    $warArray[6] = 'Kale';

    $warArray[7] = 'Kodel';

    $warArray[8] = 'Kordac';

    $warArray[9] = 'Lanth';

    $warArray[10] = 'Makojin';

    $warArray[11] = 'Mallagant';

    $warArray[12] = 'Mica';

    $warArray[13] = 'Narival';

    $warArray[14] = 'Navvar';

    $warArray[15] = 'Phostan';

    $warArray[16] = 'Rance';

    $warArray[17] = 'Ransard';

    $warArray[18] = 'Rylas';



    $warders = count( $warArray );

?>

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Spookster · 07-24-2002, 10:32 PM

I just copied and pasted your coding and it ran just fine. Is that happening on your web hosts server or a development server you are running at home?

Dalsor · 07-24-2002, 10:41 PM

It's happening on both my dev box and my server. Thinking it may be a global setting kind of thing?

Spookster · 07-24-2002, 11:04 PM

Possibly. Firepages my fellow mod may be able to shed some light on that area.

Dalsor · 07-24-2002, 11:15 PM

To avoid the possibility I might have overlooked something small ( entirely possible ), I tried adding this into the index.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php

    $success = @include('arrays.php');

    if ( !$success )

    {

        echo "Could not include the arrays file. Trying another method.";

    }

    $again = @include('/home/aww/public_html/tm/arrays.php');

    if ( !$again )

    {

        echo "Could not include the arrays file again.";

    }

    $useroot = @include( $DOCUMENT_ROOT . 'arrays.php');

    if ( !$useroot )

    {

        echo "Tried using the doc root that time. No go.";

    }

?>

I received all three errors on page load.

firepages · 07-25-2002, 03:02 AM

sorry, but like Spooks I can see no reason why that code would not work under any circumstances unless there was a problem with the include path in the php.ini, in saying that I see you tried the absolute path which should work in anycase.

I used include './sample_array.txt';
but all of your methods should have worked with the possible exception of $DOCUMENT_ROOT which may give a misleading value in a script aliased directory (and is best now accessed via $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]

try running this to see if your include path has anything strange in it

echo ini_get('include_path');

Dalsor · 07-25-2002, 06:47 AM

It just returned the path to the php installation.
.:/usr/local/lib/php

It works by locating the arrays within the index.php, so I'll stick with that. Thanks for the help.