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When working with large PHP projects in a web farm or virtual hosting environment (where there are many web sites on the same server and you can't gain access to the php.ini file), I've developed a good method for keeping PHP includes and objects out of the web space, and allowing them to be included nearly seemlessly: First, you create a file like "constants.php" or something like that, and put that outside of your web space. In this file, create some constants containing the paths to directories of includes, such as: static $OBJECT_PATH = "/home/meep/php/objects/"; static $HEADER_PATH = "/home/meep/php/includes/headers/"; then, on your individual PHP pages, you will need to include this constant file: include "/home/meep/php/config/constants.php"; and you can then include individual files by: include $GLOBALS["OBJECT_PATH"] . "myClass.php"; include $GLOBALS["HEADER_PATH"] . "blueHeader.php"; This solution seems to work well for me, and if I do eventually move things around, I will only need to change the variable's value in the constants file. You can also include other site-wide constants here, such as a site's name, etc., which you might use throughout the project. Remember - hard-coding values is bad practice, and any sort of thought process to avoid hard-coding things should be encouraged, even "hacks" like this one. Happy hacking!