$DOCUMENT_ROOT... and some stuff...

dolce

I currently run a Cirtual Server with apache on my PC, and use absolute paths to include files, such as:

<?
include("http://localhost/somedir/inchead/one.inc.php");
?>

but, suppose that my site will grow to a couple of hundred files (if not more) and at some stage I will have to upload it... I've seen a couple of month ago someone here using predefined variables such as $DOCUMENT_ROOT and others insted of the http://localhost/

How can I get this, please 🙂)

Anon

You should be including files like that.

With your method, you are generating an http request, it would be much faster to load it from the local filesystem. And at the same time it solves your problem!

include("/somedir/inchead/one.inc.php");

dolce

Eh... I should have explained it more clearly in the first place...

look, suppose I have a file structure like this:

--project
----include
----forum
----messaging
----something
------morephp

and there are PHP files in all those dirs, and they call include files from the include dir (include("../include/something.inc.php"))...

BUT, some include files, include other files, so need some way of specifying an absolute address/link to those files...

danks 🙂

Anon

Maybe I'm doing it all wrong too, but what usually end up doing is creating a constant like HTTP_ROOT and PROJECT_ROOT. I assign the HTTP_ROOT to the directory apache needs to include from for a project and PROJECT_ROOT is the directory php should start to look for files.

example:
project is in
/var/www/html/project_1/

$HTTP_ROOT = "/project_1"
$PROJECT_ROOT = "/var/www/html/project_1"

then all my includes and dynamic links use the constants.

to access /var/www/html/project_1/somefile.php

<a href="<? echo $HTTP_ROOT ?>/somefile.php"></a>

<?
include("$PROJECT_ROOT/somefile.php");

?>

I set the constants in a file that never moves like
/usr/share/php/project_1_conf.php
and include that in the begining of each project file.
(note: for my system, php looks in /usr/share/php for files that I try to include dynamically. e.g., include("project_1_conf.php") and include("/usr/share/php/project_1_conf.php") will access the same file on my box. Your system may look in a different directory.)

dolce

danks... this is good 🙂