Require string problems

[Anon]

My problem is this. I type:
<?php
require \"top.php\";
?>
and it works just fine if top.php is in the same directory.
but when I type:
<?php
require \"/top.php\";
?>
to make the script fetch the top.php from the root if I\'m in /sausages
... it doesn\'t work.
I get this error:
Fatal error: Failed opening required \'/top.php\' (include_path=\'\') in c:\apache\htdocs\news\view.php on line 3

So my question is. What should I type, to make the script pick the top.php file from root always?

[Anon]

oops,
the require needs the unix directory structure NOT the apache directory structure. You might want to include the search path in php.ini - this file is usually in /usr/local/lib/php.ini

cheers
nilesh.

[Anon]

the path looks like this in my Win32 Apache:
C:\apache\htdocs (that's the place for all my files)

in C:\apache\php\ there are two files name:
php.ini-dist
and
php.ini-optimized
in these two files there is the string:
include_path = ; UNIX: "/path1:/path2" Windows: "\path1;\path2"
I assume Windows is the one to pick.. but I just don't know what to type in after the =

I've tried with: ,.\ ,./ ,/htdocs/, /
none of them are working.