Keeping my php scripts in a seperate dir, HOW?

[squat_rack]

Hi,

I have a login.php script which upon validation of the user serves up a page. The page resides in a different directory. I serve the page by doing the
following :

readfile ../index.htm <-- read from dir above

The page shows up fine, but the associated buttons gifs are missing and when I click on the buttons the browser complains it cant find the page in my current working directory. How can I fix that?

A more general question is how can I reuse php scripts from one directory with many different html pages without having to copy the php scripts in each directory?

--thanks
--kmi

[juschillinnow]

try include

include("login.php");

this may work

[squat_rack]

I put :
<?
include("./login/login.php")
?>

in my html file. When I clicked on the browser button I got :

Not Found

The requested URL /cuernavaca/login.php was not found on this server.

juschillinnow thanks nonetheless.

--kim

[vallette]

Here's what I do. I create a directory (which I typically call lib)outside web directory that has all my common scripts. Then within the files that need to call the scripts I put:

include("/path/to/lib/somescript.php")

The path needs to be relative to your home directory not your web directory. Any HTML within the loaded scripts will be relative to the page they're being included in

I usually go further and define a LIB constant (that's the path to the lib directory) in a config page that gets called with every page. That way I can simply 'include(LIB."/somescript.php")' and if I ever move the lib directory I just redifine the constant.

For a login process I do something like this within an index.php page (this is pseudo code):

<?php
if(!$loggedin)
{
include("/path/to/script/login.php");
if(!ValidateUser($username,$password)
{
include("/path/to/script/badlogin.php");
}
else
{
include("/path/to/script/welcome.php");
}
}
?>