Re: Setting include path to same directory as .php file.?

Another confused post: Judging from the subject line, you want to do something like ini_set( ini_get( 'include_path' ) . ':' . basename( $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PATH_TRANSLATED'] ) ) Am I right? At 06:54 7.12. 2000, Dan Lowe wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Previously, Daniel Convissor said: >> >> I don't quite understand the implications of what you're saying. >> Regardless of where things are, you need to call the includes relative to >> the directory where the initial page is called from. As mentioned in a >> reply to another post of yours on this subject, I suggest using variables >> set in the initial file then using that variable name in all subsequent >> include requests. >> >> If I'm misunderstanding you, please post clarification to the list. > >Well, I may be misunderstanding you also, but here's some more info. > >Basically, there is the package called PHP-Nuke (www.phpnuke.org) and I >have a smaller package MiG (www.tangledhelix.com/software/mig) and I have >created a plugin "mode" for my package to be an add-on for PHP-Nuke. > >The issue was that the initial version dumped itself, potentially, in the >root directory of the PHP-Nuke install. That doesn't work out very well >because admittedly my installer likes to litter a bit. So the best thing >to do is to have it in a subdirectory (such as {root}/mig/) so that I do >not interfere with or trample on anything in the PHP-Nuke root directory. > >My script, when in compatibility mode, include()'s some PHP-Nuke standard >files with very simple calls: > > if ($phpNukeMode) > include("../header.php"); > > [... other stuff...] > > if ($phpNukeMode) > include("../footer.php"); > >The problem is that header.php goes on to include other files itself, and >it is assuming they'll be in "." or in include_path (neither of which is >"../". So it doesn't work. > >Since I don't control the files I am including, there's nothing I can do to >make them use a different path to include the files they are including. > >What I've done for now is leave the 'main' bit of my code in the PHP-Nuke >root and isolate the rest of the package into a subdirectory. But ideally >I would rather have everything of mine in a subdirectory, if possible. > >I hope that clears up any confusion from my earlier posts. > > -dan > >-- >Dan Lowe <dan@tangledhelix.com> >http://tangledhelix.com/ > >Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? > -George Carlin > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz ICQ: 2808 2505