"include" Problem

[Anon]

Hi,

How can include a file using absolute path in PHP3, like

include("/abc.php");

Coz I found the PHP failed to open the file. Thanks a lot.

Raymond

[Anon]

Is your file on the root directory? Does your web user have permission to read the file?

-Steven

[Anon]

Yes. The file exists and the permission should be OK too. BTW, it works fine when I using relative path instead of absolute path. And I'm using RH6.2+Apache+PHP3.

Thanks.

Raymond

Steven Behnke wrote:

Is your file on the root directory? Does your web user have permission to read the file?

-Steven

[Anon]

try
include ("./abc.php");

[Anon]

The problem here is likely to be a confusion about the meaning of "root directory."

Absolute path means exactly that -- relative to the operating system's root, not the Web server's notion of document root. If you are including /abc.php and the file is in /home/httpd/html/, PHP will not find the file.

Try this:

include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/abc.php");

You also might want to read the documentation for php.ini, where it's possible to fiddle around with include path defaults.