Relative include: what way to go?

gmarik

I started to build my own CMS, but there is one fundametal problem.

index.php:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
    <head>
       <? include "include.inc.php"; 
	   ?>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="780">
    <tr>
        <td>
		<? include_once("$style_set/top".$incex); ?>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="200">
		<? include_once("$style_set/med".$incex); ?>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
		<? include_once("$style_set/bot".$incex); ?>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

gmarik

include.inc.php:

<?php

include("elem/config.inc.php");
include("elem/func.lib.js");
include("elem/blocks".$incex);
include("elem/func.inc.php");
include("elem/lang/".$lang.$phpex);
include("elem/meta".$incex);

?>

gmarik

elem/config.inc.php:

$base =                $DOCUMENT_ROOT;
$basedir =              "C:\myserver\root\mtrx\AbacusQ";


$lang =                "russian"; // Default language
$style =               "business"; // Default style
$phpex =               ".php"; // Php file suffix
$incex =               ".inc.php"; // Include file extension
$libex =               ".lib.php"; // Include file extension
$elem =                "../elem"; // Include elements, common for all styles
$lang_vars =           $elem . "/lang/" .$lang . $phpex; // Language file, default russian
$blocks =              $base . "/blocks"; // Include elements, common for all styles


$style_fld =           $base . "/" . "style"; // Include elements, common for all styles
$style_set =           "$DOCUMENT_ROOT/style/" . $style; // Style/skin root location
$img =                 "$DOCUMENT_ROOT/style/" .$style. "/images"; // Style img elements
$css =                 "$DOCUMENT_ROOT/style/" .$style. "/style.css"; // Custom Style Sheet

$home_url =            $base; // Associated category folder
$admin_url =           $elem . "/admin"; // Associated category folder
$contact_url =         $base . "/contact"; // Associated category folder

The problem is - how to write and what to write in $base, so it works on UNIX, Windows Apache platforms. I would prefer relative paths, but they seem to get lost on some servers. Is there a good solution for that?

mcgruff

I've never had any problems with relative paths.

I haven't looked at your code in detail but - if you haven't tried this already - it might help to echo out path vars at various points in your script to see exactly what you're getting.

My first thought was that you've got a lot of includes there which I'd try to trim down for efficiency, if possible.

gmarik

I echoed them, but sometimes they just get lost, on some servers. I need it working on Windows as well.