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

that's the way i do it, for example require_once realpath( dirname(__FILE__) . '/lib/LibAllTests.php' ); also I often use set_include_path to ensure everything works throughout, it's a lot simpler for require/includes set_include_path( get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . realpath( dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ) ); for example.. then all subsequent requires will be: require_once 'Folder/file.php'; regards