nowplaying.include.php Will Not Display Results

Cyberchimps.com recommended I post here as they believed there may be a global issue with my request. I thought what I was missing was obvious and simple, but two months into this and being referred here seems to indicate otherwise. All I would like to do is have some results from some very simple php to work either in a sidebar widget or the main page. I know the php is working because I can view it’s results at http://ie107.com/wp-content/themes/responsive-child-theme/nowplaying-example.php. I have tried Allow PHP, Exec-PHP and one other plugin to no avail. I know their plugins work because their samples worked on my site.

The code/instructions are this simple:

• To display the artist and title of the current song in any webpage, simply include the following code at the beginning of the page:

  include “nowplaying.include.php”;
  

• To display the current artist and title, insert the code <?php print htmlspecialchars($GLOBALS["track"][0]["artist"]) ?> and <?php print htmlspecialchars($GLOBALS["track"][0]["title"]) ?> respectively. For example:

  We are currently playing by

Thus far I installed and activated three PHP plugins at separate times. I have relocated the script from the /wp-admin folder to the /wp-content/themes/responsive-child-theme folder as instructed by azoomer.com. I created a text widget and tested the widgets and PHP with <?php echo “This is the PHP ‘Hello World’”; ?> and was successful. I then created a text widget with:

<?php include(ABSPATH. “/wp-content/themes/responsive-child-theme/nowplaying.include.php”); ?>

<?php
include “nowplaying.include.php”;
?>

<p>We are currently playing <?php print htmlspecialchars($GLOBALS["track"][0]["title"]) ?> by <?php print htmlspecialchars($GLOBALS["track"][0]["artist"]) ?></p>

The widget appeared but there was no text at all, not even “We are currently…” I removed <?php include “nowplaying.include.php”; ?> the text “We are currently playing by” appears but no song and artist. I also tried without the absolute path and it did not work either. I verified the song and artist information is being retrieved again by visiting http://ie107.com/wp-content/themes/responsive-child-theme/nowplaying-example.php. I then copied the code from that site source into my widget and only text populated again without song and artist.