note 36658 deleted from function.include by sniper

Note Submitter: srjosh@!nospam!.maestrakara.com ---- I noticed several solutions regarding different ways of addressing filepaths in includes - particularly multi-tiered includes. However, none of them worked for me. Most of the ones I found seem to rely on root-level addressing, which wasn't working for me. My server is set to not accept variables from external pages, and it was reading the root addressed pages as external. Anyway, here is what I came up with: // Send this function a root-formatted address and it will calculate a relative address - // i.e. $dest="/includes/format_include.php" will be translated to "../../includes/format_include.php" function new_address($dest){ //splits current directory into an array to be compared to target directory. $current = explode ("/", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]); //splits target directory into an array to be compared to current directory. $dest = explode ("/", $dest); $relative_toggle=true; for ($x=0;$x<count($dest);$x++){ debug($x); if ($relative_toggle==true){ if ($dest[$x]==$current[$x]){ $toURL = $toURL . "../"; } else { $relative_toggle = false; } } else { if ($x == count($dest)-1) { $toURL = $toURL . $dest[$x]; } else { $toURL = $toURL . $dest[$x] . "/"; } } } return ($toURL); } It works by splitting both current address (as reported by $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]) and the target address as fed to the function into arrays based on the slashmarks, then running a comparison. Each array value correspondes to a directory, of course. It seemed counter-intuitive to me at first, but if the target and current arrays MATCH, then the relative URL you are building needs a "../" for that level. If they DON'T match, then you are at the point where the target directory structure takes over. This is where the $relative_toggle comes into play. Finally, do note that $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] doesn't report query strings, so if that is important to you, you might need to change that part of the code.