Re: include() problem

Nuno, Have you considered $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']? David Nuno Trancoso wrote: > This may sound dumb, but i have been up all night going through > php/apache docs, and still have not found an answer.. > > Throughout a site i need to include files that are scattered in subdirs, > sometimes up in the dir tree, sometimes down. Bad design i know but i > have to live w/ it... > > Problem is in the way Apache/PHP see stuff. If i include /somefile.htm > in html, it means somefile.htm wich is at site root dir. In PHP it looks > like it means somefile.htm at SERVER root dir. > > I can use getcwd() and go around truncating/adding to the string until i > get a path to use with set_include_path() to add the site root dir to > the include path, but it just seems wrong to waste cycles doing it... > > So, question is, is there a more direct/elegant way to add the site root > (or any other dir for that matter) to the include path? > > TIA > Nuno Trancoso > -- David Grant http://www.grant.org.uk/