Preserved Topic: Simple PHP question

I want to do a simple include with php to create an index of titles for a poetry collection I am working on.
http://krets.net/verbose

That's the page. What I want to be able to do is create the links to all the titles in a text file and just update the text file when I add a new poem instead of having to update each page.

I know next to nothing of PHP and I've looked around for tuts on the subject but I've had little luck.

Can anyone help me out?

You'd be better off just creating that "nav" part on the left, and including it on all pages. Using a flat text file would require you to parse it and format it on the fly. Create your nav section in a seperate .php file, and in place of the nav on each page, put:

<?php
include("path/to/nav/file.php");
?>

Keep in mind that it's the system path, not the URL.

Does this make sense?

Yep, that's exactly what I needed.

Thanks man.

Do I need to chmod any of the files?

It's not working...
http://krets.net/verbose/test.html

Hi kretsminky,

You need to rename the file with a .php file extension. You can also configure Apache to parse html files but that adds a lot of overhead to the server if your site is very busy.

[edit]It looks like you beat me too it. I tried test.php and got an error message though. Your path should be more like /home/kretsne/public_html/verbose/nav.php instead of /public_html/verbose/nav.php.[/edit]

Regards,
Charlie

[This message has been edited by Piper (edited 07-10-2002).]

Tried that...
http://krets.net/test.php

The nav to be included is:
http://krets.net/nav.php



[This message has been edited by kretsminky (edited 07-10-2002).]

Woo hoo!

It works.

Thanks piper and pugz.