Re: require_once '../config.php'; doesn't work?

Depends on where the executed script is located ... And it always depends on the script that is called - if you give a relative path like you did here. if the script you called would be http://www.example.com/news/2004-04-10/mypage.php then config.php would have to be in /news if your layout is like: / (root) |-settings/ |-news/ |-2004-04-10/ and you call a script in root then db.php would be included, but not if called from the dir news ... You could either prepend something (like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) or you define something like define ('MY_SETTINGS_DIR', '/usr/local/www/settings'); so the path will be absolute ... or you could write some function that calculates the relative path to root no matter where the script you called resides in - and prepend that string then ... or .... hth Richard Saturday, April 10, 2004, 4:36:31 AM, you wrote: > Is it true I can't include a file up a dir like this: > require_once '../config.php'; > This seems to work though: > require_once 'settings/db.php'; > Strange. > ~ Mike > ----- > Mike Zornek > Web Designer, Media Developer, Programmer and Geek > Personal site: <http://MikeZornek.com> > New Project: <http://WebDevWiki.com>