php and templates

[buttercupnli]

we have gotten a page from an outside developer who works in php. i need to
turn her sample page into a dreamweaver template. however, it looks as though
when i make a page from template that some of the file paths are changed so
that the related files cannot be located by the browser.

for example

my template code:
<?php
$pageTitle = "Title";
$additionalKeyWords = "";
$addtionalDescription ="";
$updateDate = "July 7, 2006";
include('includes/components.php');
echo $pageHeader;
?>


the page code on page made from template
<!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/page.dwt.php"
codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --><?php
$pageTitle = "Title";
$additionalKeyWords = "";
$addtionalDescription ="";
$updateDate = "July 7, 2006";
include('Templates/includes/components.php');
echo $pageHeader;
?>

how should i be approaching this?

thank you

[Murray *ACE*]

A template cannot contain a link like this -

include('includes/components.php');

since it implies that the include file is *in* the Templates folder, and you
should never have anything in the Templates folder other than the templates
themselves.

If this file is in the Templates folder, please use DW's Files panel to move
it somewhere else. If it's not in the Templates folder, then please convert
this link to a root relative link rather than a document relative link.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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> we have gotten a page from an outside developer who works in php. i need
> to
> turn her sample page into a dreamweaver template. however, it looks as
> though
> when i make a page from template that some of the file paths are changed
> so
> that the related files cannot be located by the browser.
>
> for example
>
> my template code:
> <?php
> $pageTitle = "Title";
> $additionalKeyWords = "";
> $addtionalDescription ="";
> $updateDate = "July 7, 2006";
> include('includes/components.php');
> echo $pageHeader;
> ?>
>
>
> the page code on page made from template
> <!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/page.dwt.php"
> codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --><?php
> $pageTitle = "Title";
> $additionalKeyWords = "";
> $addtionalDescription ="";
> $updateDate = "July 7, 2006";
> include('Templates/includes/components.php');
> echo $pageHeader;
> ?>
>
> how should i be approaching this?
>
> thank you
>
>