PHP Include function not working [closed]

Question

I'm trying to develop a website. I want that different sections of site that will be written in PHP will be in different file. Such as "posts.php", "recents.php" etc. I'm trying to use the function "include" to include the files from the directory "/codes/". But it is not working.

The thing happen is, if I put <?php include '/codes/posts.php' ?> in the middle of the original HTML page (the page is saved in PHP format). The code portion before the line added is working, but the portion after the line added is vanished. Don't know why. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

After fixing the semi-colon issue, also consider that:

If a path is defined — whether absolute (starting with a drive letter or \ on Windows, or / on Unix/Linux systems) or relative to the current directory (starting with . or ..) — the include_path will be ignored altogether. For example, if a filename begins with ../, the parser will look in the parent directory to find the requested file.

form the PHP docs

so either include './codes/posts.php'; or include 'codes/posts.php', the first version looks for the file, relative to the current working directory, the second uses the include path.

PS: best use require_once or include_once, to avoid including the same function/class definitions multiple times, which will casuse issues (redeclaring functions)

Answer 2

Try this one, you forgot to add a single quote :

<?php
// Enable error logging: 
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

// Add a single quote: 
include '/codes/posts.php';
?>