RE: [PHP] Accessing upper directory of public_html directory
| From: | John Holmes | Date: | Wed, 24 Jul 2002 03:25:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Accessing upper directory of public_html directory | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> I bought a web host service from a company named easyspace.com. I
have
> tried to ask them this question many times but until now there is no
> response from them at all.
> According to the security issue of placing password in script I
brought
> up
> days ago, some one on this news group suggested me to place such
script in
> directory above %public_html directory. The problem is I do not know
how
> to
> access such directory. Is it because the service I bought does not
allow
> me
> to do it? or if it is accessible, how to do it?
Just use include() or require() to "include" the file into your script.
You can provide a full path to the file (above the web root) or use a
relative path according to the file that's doing the including. Say you
using a script in your webroot and you want to include a db.php file
that's in an include/ directory above your web root. You can use:
include("/home/full/path/to/your/dir/include/db.php");
Or
include("../include/db.php");
---John Holmes...