I'm having problems with PHP sessions dropping data and redirecting back to my login page.
This is the directory structure I have from the top:
Login // Contains files to login/logout
Main // Contains pages for logged in users
index.php // Login screen with fully operational form
In login directory: check_login.php
In main directory: page1.php, folder1 and folder2
In folder 1: home.php, include1.php
In folder 2: include2.php
(Sorry if this is not very easy to understand)
This is the code I run when logging in on check_login.php:
session_start();
$_SESSION["id"] = $id;
header("location:../main/page1.php"); //into main directory
All of the pages contain the same styling (heading, navigation, footer) and have one main content block that changes per page so therefore I use includes contained in folder1 and folder2 depending on the content to be displayed. By default, home.php is included for the home page which is located in folder1. Other pages use includes such as include1.php or include2.php which could be from either folder.
At the top of page1.php:
session_start();
if($_SESSION["id"] == '')
{
header("location:../index.php");
}
From page1.php, if I navigate to a page with an include that is located in folder1, this works fine. If I navigate back to the home, an include also in folder1 this works fine. Both times I can read the id variable from session.
However if I navigate to a page with an include located in folder2 I get redirected to my login page.
Any ideas?
You need to always include your session start. A good approach for this would be to create a header.php or bootstrap.php or similar that you can include_once at the beginning of each file that extends that relies on the session. Then your code is going to cleaner and easier to manage, in addition to working properly.
I have resolved this, and cannot believe my idiocy.
In one of the includes where I was echoing a link to another page, this was wrong and in fact pointing to my login page all along. Everything is working fine now, appreciate for all the help. Typical schoolboy error.
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I just started creating a website at my home.
Absolutely, I must have these two pages to finish my website rapidly:- footer.php, header.php.
So I created those pages & put some contents. Also created an index page as index.php inside the htdocs folder.
Then I did include the header & footer pages inside the index.php page by using these following codes.
<?php include 'header.php'; ?>
<?php include 'footer.php'; ?>
Undoubtedly, they worked fine without any trouble.
Then I created a directory as account inside the htdocs.
Now I've a login.php page inside the account directory (/account/login.php).
Repeatedly I used those same codes to include the header & footer in the login page. But they didn't work! I saw nothing is happening. If I create the login.php page inside of the htdocs folder (not in htdocs/account/), so it works.
So, how can I include them while the login page is in account directory?
When creating sub directories and including files it is always simpler to use absolute file paths.
The path with reference to root directory is called absolute (https://www.website.com/modules/header.php), you can even remove the domain and just have /modules/header.php. The path with reference to current directory is called relative (../images/phone.png). The ../ indicates that the URL points to the directory above the current folder.
Please see answers relating to a similar question here: difference-between-relative-path-and-absolute-path-in-javascript
I think it's a file path problem，you can use this code:
<?php include '../header.php' ?>
<?php include '../footer.php' ?>
Load the file of the first level directory。
I just started creating a website at my home.
Absolutely, I must have these two pages to finish my website rapidly:- footer.php, header.php.
So I created those pages & put some contents. Also created an index page as index.php inside the htdocs folder.
Then I did include the header & footer pages inside the index.php page by using these following codes.
<?php include 'header.php'; ?>
<?php include 'footer.php'; ?>
Undoubtedly, they worked fine without any trouble.
Then I created a directory as account inside the htdocs.
Now I've a login.php page inside the account directory (/account/login.php).
Repeatedly I used those same codes to include the header & footer in the login page. But they didn't work! I saw nothing is happening. If I create the login.php page inside of the htdocs folder (not in htdocs/account/), so it works.
So, how can I include them while the login page is in account directory?
When creating sub directories and including files it is always simpler to use absolute file paths.
The path with reference to root directory is called absolute (https://www.website.com/modules/header.php), you can even remove the domain and just have /modules/header.php. The path with reference to current directory is called relative (../images/phone.png). The ../ indicates that the URL points to the directory above the current folder.
Please see answers relating to a similar question here: difference-between-relative-path-and-absolute-path-in-javascript
I think it's a file path problem，you can use this code:
<?php include '../header.php' ?>
<?php include '../footer.php' ?>
Load the file of the first level directory。
I have searched all over the web trying to figure this out and am now trying to get a direct answer from some experienced users. I hope I can explain myself completely.
I know HTML and CSS and some PHP and Javascript, but no mean an expert. This is my questions:
When creating a website by hand (no Drupal, or Wordpress or predesigned templates), The first thing I do is create an index.php file that shows my HTML page layout. The second thing I do is create my links.inc.php file that will show all the links to my pages, ex: Home, About Us, Contact Us. Now on the index.php page I create php include files for the header, footer, and link pages. (these would read header.inc.php, footer.inc.php, links.inc.php) Now here is where I am trying to figure if there is an easier way to do the next step.
My normal steps would next to be to create a home.inc.php, aboutus.inc.php, contactus.inc.php files which will have all the "content" I want shown for each page.
I would then create a duplicate of the index.php and create aboutus.php where I would use the php include function to add the aboutus.inc.php into the "main content" area I would want this information displayed at. Then I would create anther duplicate of the index.php and name it contactus.php and "include" the contactus.inc.php file.
Is there any way to use the index.php file and have all the inc.php files on that page? For instance,
<div id="main">
<?php
include ("home.inc.php");
include ("aboutus.inc.php");
include ("contactus.inc.php")
?>
</div>
Obviously this does not work they way I have it laid out above, it shows all the pages at the same time instead of only showing the one page that is clicked on from the menu. Any suggestions? Is there a different way or am I doing it correctly with creating multiple pages?
Thank you for any help and I hope I was clear, if not I can try to explain a different way.
My suggestion is to include files conditionally, based on a variable that defines the current page.
For example, given the following navigation:
Home
About Us
Contact Us
Configure your index.php file to include external files, something like this:
// determine the requested page, default to the home page
$page = isset($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 'home';
// check if the requested include file exists
$include_file = is_file($page.'.inc.php') ? $page.'.inc.php' : false;
// if the requested include file exists, include it
if ($include_file) {
include $include_file;
}
Feel free to adjust the logic. For example, if a $page value is not recognized as a valid page on your site, you may want to show a 404 page, default to the "home" page, etc.
Edit
If your include files are in a different directory, you'll need to provide the correct path:
// define the path to includes
$path = 'inc/';
// check if the requested include file exists
$include_file = is_file($path.$page.'.inc.php') ? $path.$page.'.inc.php' : false;
You could send a variable to PHP index.php?action=home; then, inside index make some verifications
if($action=="home") {include index.inc.php; }
else if ($action=="contact") {include contact.inc.php }
and so on.
I have three pages on my localhost 1 is my index page,2 is my universal header page which is under includes folder of and 3 is my html file which is under html folder.The header file is included in both the index file and html file like that...
for index.php-include("includes/header.php");
for html.php-include("../includes/header.php");
and my header has the link of index.php page that is (./index.php)
Now my questions is that when i open my index page and click on link of index page from my header it takes me to same index.php page but when in open html.php page and then click index.php page link from header it does not go to index.php page but it goes to this page-
(localhost/educational%20website/html/index.php) how to solve that.
And i also want to know that write now i am on localhost but when i make my site live is there any need to change the paths because i am making around 150 pages with your technique plaese so please answer me that kind of technique that is used for both localhost and on live
Your are including paths relatively, use a (absolute) base path in your index.php to fix this:
include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/header.php');
One way is to define a variable or a constant for the site's url in the header.php file. Then in all your other pages, you could just use this variable/constant when you need to mention the other urls.
Eg(put this as first line in your header.php file):
define('SITE_URL', 'http://localhost/educationalwebsite');
Here, we have defined a constant named SITE_URL. Then in other pages, you are already including this header file. Isn't it? So, this constant will be available in your index.php, html.php and other pages.
And suppose for a link in your html.php file(to point to the index.php), you could use it like this:
Home
If you want to include link to the html.php file residing inside html folder, it would be like:
HTML
By using this way, if you are uploading the whole site to a live server, you only need to change one line, ie. the first line in header.php, where we have defined the SITE_URL constant. Just change it's value to the new URL of the home directory of your website.
Hope this helps
I am making a site and I need to get the "root" directory of the site. Like if the filestructure was similar to
CloudShop
\-internal
\-js
...
\-inc
inc.all.php
index.php
\-login
login.php
loginError.php
page.php
In inc.all.php I am getting all the pages in the database so I can display them in the navigation bar and I am setting the links like <a href="page.php?id=XXX>PAGE_TITLE</a> However, when I click on one of the page links from login.php, it takes me to /CloudShop/login/page.php?id=XXX. I want it to take me to /CloudShop/page.php?id=XXX.
You can use path-absolute URIs. Suppose you had at http://www.example.com/shop/login/login.php:
page
The resolved URI would be http://www.example.com/shop/page.php?id=1.
Suggestion: Try the PHP Magic constants:
__DIR__