How do I include other files in PHP?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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。