Re: something annoying about includes/relative paths.

Sean Malloy wrote:

Moving to PHP from an ASP backgroun, I always found one thing really annoying about PHP. With ASP, you could have a file structure such as: SYSTEM |--HTML | |--header.asp | |--LOGIC | |--engine.asp | |--core.asp in default.asp, you would <!--#include file="system/core.asp"--> in core.asp, engine.asp would be included as such <!--#include file="LOGIC/engine.asp"--> in engine.asp, header.asp would be included as such <!--#include file="../HTML/header.asp"--> Its a bad example. However, it demonstrates that the relative path for each include changed depending on what file was being included. PHP doesn't do that. Which is kind of annoying, but you get used to it.. But I've come up with a work around. htdocs/index.php include('./system/core.php'); htdocs/system/core.php define('CORE_PATH', str_replace('core.php', '', __FILE__)); include(CORE_PATH.'logic/engine.php'); htdocs/system/logic/engine.php include(CORE_PATH.'html/header.php'); and so on and so forth. searching for __FILE__, and removing the filename from the output, gives you a sort of relative path hack. Hope someone finds that useful

You could also simply use the $DOCUMENT_ROOT variable prepopulated for you ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] perhaps?) and base your includes relative to that. Michael Kimsal http://www.phpappserver.com/ 734-480-9961