RE: [PHP-WIN] require producing following error

Either escape the \ as \\ ie. c:\\wwwroot\\ or use the / ie. c:/wwwroot/ Ignatius > -----Original Message----- > From: Asendorf, John [mailto:JAsendorf@lcounty.com] > Sent: Monday, 24 July 2000 23:43 > To: Dave Johnston; php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] require producing following error > > > Is the common.php3 file in the wwwroot directory? > > if not, you will need to specify the common files directory. > > If that doesn't work. You may need to change the "/" to a > "\" before the > file name... > > I've also noticed that requiring one file from another > required file can be > tricky. > I'm not exactly sure, but if you have say three files. > > 1) c:\wwwroot\first_file.php > 2) c:\wwwroot\root_includes\root_include.php > 3) c:\wwwroot\global_includes\global_include.php > > The first requires the second and then the second calls the third. > Sometimes I think that the second include (if it uses a > relative path of > some sort) may actually look from the location of the first file. > > So that an include "..\global_includes\global_include.php" > placed in the > second file will come out as c:\global_includes\global_include.php > as opposed to c:\wwwroot\global_includes\global_include.php > which is what > you want. In other words it is searching for the include > that is in the > second file as if it were coming from the first file (which > has a different > directory level). > > This might all be a lie. But I think that it works that way > if you don't > know what you are doing (like me). If you know what you are > doing then you > usually don't have silly problems like this (unlike me). > > Good Luck, > John > > --------------------- > John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com > Web Applications Developer > Licking County, Ohio, USA > 740-349-3631 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave Johnston [SMTP:davjoh@interlog.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:15 PM > > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] require producing following error > > > > <?php > > //require ("common.php3"); > > ?> > > > > without the comment produces the following error: > > > > Fatal error: Failed opening required 'common.php3' in > > c:\Inetpub\wwwroot/jobapp_action.php3 on line 6 > > > > Running PWS Win98 PHP3 -- the common.php3 file opens on its own. > > > > This is part of an exercise in Professional PHP Programming > Chap 6 P 125 - > > 127 > > > > Any help greatly appreciated > > Dave > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >