Include issues

Anon

I cant seem to make PHP 4 use include files without setting an include directory in the virtualhost or in php.ini

Example:

If i want to include a file thats in the same directory or in a relative path, PHP never seems to find the files, even if I specify the relative path or local filename.

from Squirrelmail index.php

<?php
include "./functions/strings.php";

$location = get_location();
header("Location: $location/src/login.php\n\n");
exit();
?>

The file its trying to include exists, but its never found, giving me fatal errors when it cant find its functions 😉.. I've been developing in PHP for 3 years now and I cant think of anytime i've been able to make this work without using the php.ini includepath setting, or setting it in each virtual host under apache using php settings there. Am I missing something? I've read the manual 20 times and I dont see why this shouldnt work... Is there a php variable or compile option that would enable includes to see local files, or files in relative paths?

Thanks, I hope this makes sense.
Joe Jenkins

mithril

Joe,

Makes perfect sense🙂 Basically you've got 2 solutions (that I can see anyways). First, you guessed it, involves modifying your php.ini. Change your includes_dir setting to:

include_dir = ".;/var/www/path1;/var/www/path2"

The path1, path2, etc. bit is irrelvant, merely specific pathes to include folders. The bit that matters is the "." setting. Just places that argument in your %CLASSPATH%, it forces PHP to also look in the local path.

If that doesn't work, check out the PHP Options and Information section of the manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php

Specifically, the ini_set() method will let you set a local value for the include_dir. Thus,

ini_set("include_dir", $REQEST_URI);

will set the directive to the current directory for the duration of that script run. HTH.

Cheers,

Geoff A. Virgo

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Don't use relative paths in include statements.

Anon

Vincent gave the correct advice IMHO. It is just much simpler to set a unix path to the script, then use that in your includes. Assuming your incude files are in php-bin/phpfiles/

$unix_path = '/home/httpd/domain.com/php-bin';

include_once("$unix_path/phpfiles/myfile.php");

It'll work everytime.