Php

[Pete]

hi ppl,

ive just got a simple questions about the include() clause.

when i do:

include('index.php');

it doesnt work, saying that it cant find index.php

however if i do:

include('./index.php');

it works?? im trying to use some pre-made code and really do not want to go to every include() and require() commands and modify them all by adding this './'

thanks for any help

Pete

[yelvington]

It's conceivable that the include_path setting in php.ini is hosed up. Take a look.

If you can't edit/change php.ini, see http://www.alt-php-faq.org/local/21/

[packland]

It works for me! on my machine and my web host (both Linux). ie. index.php would be found if it's in the same directory in both cases.

in unix ./index.php reads '.' which is a listing of files in the directory and associated inodes (... or something like that) and locates up the file from the listing

In your case...although the file descriptions are essentially the same thing they are being read and intrepretted in a different way.

Perhaps its something like the "URL fopen wrappers" setting at :
http://php3.de/manual/en/print/function.include.php

with the './' version, apache is using the local pathname. With the filename only version it is being interpretted as a URL which is not allowed on your server (probably a good thing to allow includes from URL's for security). I am way out of my depth but there may be a default include directory for your hosted setup, in which case if you create/use this directory it might just work.

If you have access to the server put your includes in the include directory
see yelvington's comment

in unix it is (according to experts) always better to refer to files with ./ . If someone would like to give a link/explanation of all the issues I for one would be extremely interested.

I couldn't find anything straight away at this resource:
http://php3.de/manual/en/print/ref.filesystem.phpe functions:

i hope this isn't completely useless.