include files

I've got kind of a deep page structure, lots of subdirs. I'm having trouble with an include directive. The problem is a footer that I use on all pages, which resides in the base directory. The footer file includes another file, which I use if there is no menu. footer.inc has menu, and includes footer-nomenu.inc footer-nomenu.inc may be used alone. I know this works, in footer.inc, to pull up nomenu. <? include("/home/dvh/public_html/footer-nomenu.inc")?> However, is there a more "generic" way to specify the server root as the path? I'd rather not expose my directory structure in the PHP code. I tried various versions of ../ and ../../ without success. -- Where's dave? http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kc6ete-9