Re: include question

Daniel Brown wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 08:53, Stuart <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> 1.) We use regular open tags to be compatible with all stock >>> PHP configurations. >>> 2.) We echo out the response from dirname() so that it's >>> output to the HTML source. >>> 3.) We use dirname() twice, so it gives the dirname() of the >>> dirname(), rather than '..'. >>> 4.) There are double underscores around FILE. The same is >>> true with LINE, FUNCTION, etc. >>> >> 5.) dirname() gives you the full path on disk, not the URL. Usually you can >> just remove the document root path to get the URL. This could be in >> $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] but you can't rely on that between servers or when >> the config changes. >> > > 6.) When used in conjunction with realpath()[1], it will > resolve the absolute local pathname. > > ^1: http://php.net/realpath > > Sorry, guys, but none of this works... I get the document root which is wonderful but it misses the vhost root completely. So what I get both with realpath and $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']is /usr/local/www/apache22/data/images/file.gif or /usr/local/www/apache22/data/../images/file.gif and that, of course misses the main directory for this site which is ptahhotep In /ptahhotep/file.php - the path for the image.gif is images/image.gif In /ptahhotep/admin/another_file.php/ the path for the image.gif is ../images/image.gif But as I try different variations, I finally see that adding the root directory name for the site does the trick. Have I discovered something new here? :-) -- unheralded genius: "A clean desk is the sign of a dull mind. " ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php