Include Paths

[ralphiooo]

Hi, for the last few years i've not thought too much about include paths, before i used to put require './includes/common.inc.php'; at the top of every file which is situated in the root. This file also references files with the same include path eg require './includes/functions.inc.php';

Now I have moved the admin file to it's own folder called admin and changed the require statement to require '../includes/common.inc.php'; but now it can not read the correct path to the files referenced in the common.inc.php file.

I'd appreciate if someone could give me a solution which will work (even if I use mod rewrite and the file is not in the folder in the url - if you get me) and is not too messy.

Appreciate the help. Thanks

 

[sleipnir214]

mod_rewrite does nothing here. PHP's filesytem functions to not operate through the web browser.

What I would do is set the include_path value for this virtual server to have in it the path to your "include" directory. Then all your scripts could just do:

include 'functions.inc.php';

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[ralphiooo]

Hi cheers for the response, is their an easier solution which doesn't involve modifying server files as that would be fine working locally but I don't always have access to the server files. Cheers

 

[AdaHacker]

From the PHP documentation on include():

If filename begins with ./ or ../, it is looked only in include_path relative to the current working directory.

In other words, you can't do it that way. You have to modify include_path.

Fortunately, you can modify include path pretty much anyplace. In addition to the server config files, you can do it in a .htaccess file or in code with

ini_set("include_path", "/path/to/include/files");

 

[rogerood]

Hi, cheers for your help. I checked up on the include path stuff and seems alot clearer now. Since ./ and ../ looks for an include path relative to the current working directory I declared a constant at the top of my /admin/index.php called ROOT_PATH and set it to "./../". I then did the same for the files in the root folder, eg for /index.php and set it to "./". Then for each file I called the include file with:

require ROOT_PATH . 'includes/common.php';

Finally in the common.php file I refered the include the same way, eg:

require ROOT_PATH . 'includes/config.php';

Hope that can help someone as I think it is quite a tidy solution.