Root syntax for includes

[Anon]

<?php include("/commonheader.inc"); ?>

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this?

Thanks.

[mithril]

PHP is interpreting the path as "/your/define/php_includes/directory//commonheader.inc". If commonheader.inc is in the root if the php_includes directory, call it using <?php include("commonheader.inc"); ?>. If it's in the same directory as the calling script, <?php include("./commonheader.inc"); ?>will do the trick.

-geoff

[[deleted]]

"PHP is interpreting the path as "/your/define/php_includes/directory//commonheader.inc". "

not really, it is interpreting the file as "/commonheader.inc", nothing more, because this include statement contains an absolute path. The 'include_path' is only used when there is no mention of a path in the include() statement.

The real point is:
The 'root' directory of your webserver is the documentroot where you keep your html pages and PHP scripts. ('/www/bladebla/webserver/documentroot/html/')

but:

the 'root' directory for PHP is the root directory of your filesystem. ('/')

Remember: include is a FILESYSTEM operation!

[Anon]

PHP is interpreting the path as "/your/define/php_includes/directory//commonheader.inc". If commonheader.inc is in the root if the php_includes directory, call it using <?php include("commonheader.inc"); ?>. If it's in the same directory as the calling script, <?php include("./commonheader.inc"); ?>will do the trick.

Thanks, Geoff - But it's the other way around with a minor difference:

same dir= <?php include(file.inc);?>
subdir= <?php include(../file.inc);?>

Thanks again.