Re: include files

"David VanHorn" <dvanhorn@cedar.net> wrote: > 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. How about the environment variable $DOCUMENT_ROOT (you may need to access as $GLOBALS[DOCUMENT_ROOT] depending on your code). Put <?php phpinfo(); ?> in a webpage to see all of the goodies available to you. I personally prefer to keep the bulk of my PHP code outside the document root, in a directory parallel to it. I define a constant INC_PATH typically parallel to the document root using code similar to the following: // Set INC_PATH. ereg( "(.*)web_directory.*", $SCRIPT_FILENAME, $regs ); define( "INC_PATH", $regs[1] . "inc_directory/" ); Then I include files as follows: include( INC_PATH . "inc_common.php" ); Very portable. > I tried various versions of ../ and ../../ without success. This isn't very portable anyway. You don't want to have to change paths if you move a file to a deeper subdirectory. -- Steve Werby COO 24-7 Computer Services, LLC Tel: 804.817.2470 http://www.247computing.com/