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Ok on my webpage I have a bit of php which I Want to include
heres what i write

<?php

include('../text/text.php');

?>

But that gives me the wrong file path. Now I think it has to do with the ../ because my server is running in linux, and the file extensions are slightly different that traditional.

Quick guess.

The include statement uses the local file structure not your web path.

so if your page is in /httpdocs/whatever/test.php

that will actually look for

/httpdocs/text/text.php

To find out your absolute path to the doc do this

<?php
print getcwd()
?>

Which will show you the absolute path to the file. Usually something like /var/www/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/test.php

Where the first slash is the root path of your file system so if you want to included httpdocs/text/text.php

You really need to do

include('/var/www/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/text/text.php');


I may not have explained this well but the ../ syntax is fine you just need to know what the ../ is relative to.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 12-10-2003).]

Ok i know the path to my folder is

/var/www/html/tutorials/ps/text/text.php

the file which I put the include in is

/var/www/html/tutorials/ps/tech/index.php


so within the index.php its trying to include('../text/text.php')

Why wouldn't that work? its going back one directory, in to text folder and accessing text.php right?

Well, I don't like using the full path. If you change hosts, you might end up with a different file structure.
I like to use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to get me to the root of the site. Using that, you could use something like this:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/tutorials/ps/text/text.php");

marf

That won't work because according to the paths you give ../text/ would put you in /ps/ which is one level up from /text/. The /tech/ file is parallel to the /text/ file so you can't get to it by doing ../.

-Butcher-

actually, the proper way to construct a file path from the current file is using
dirname(__FILE__).
like include(dirname(__FILE__). '/../mydir/myfile.php');

- getcwd() will return the current directory, which might be something else.

Target File /var/www/html/tutorials/ps/tech/index.php

Current file /var/www/html/tutorials/ps/text/text.php
would be
include(dirname(__FILE__). '/../text/text.php');

so long,

Tyberius Prime

Thanks Pugzly,

The $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] worked.

The reason I didn't want to use a full name is because if ir changes to different servers, I don't what to have to go through every page and change the path. This way its more universal.


I'm still baffled a little as to why ../text/text.php didn't work
Start in /var/www/html/tutorials/ps/tech/index.php
1. cause ../ means go back one directory so I would then be in '/var/www/html/tutorials/ps'
2. then text/text.php would take me to '/var/www/html/tutorials/ps/text/text.php'

quote:

---

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/tutorials/ps/text/text.php");

---

Note include() is a language construct and not a function.

<?php

    $root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

    include $root . '/tutorials/ps/text/text.php';

?>

And the whole point of double quotes is to allow variable interpolation.

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