There is something weird going on with PHP includes on a site which I’m working on. I’ve been trying to include a file which will change depending on where you are in the site, therefore the URL of the include is created by combining a number of variables and an existing string.

$page_audience = "5-9s"; $baseURL = "/mysite/"; include($baseURL."/Includes/inc_footer_".$page_audience.".php");

However, this simply does not work, it throws PHP errors all over the place. In the end I resorted to changing the ‘baseURL’ variable to an absolute file address.

$baseURL = "d:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/";

Surely this isn’t necessary? Sure it works, but it’s a tad ugly. Do I simply have something wrong with my PHP installation on Windows, or am I missing something else?