[Resolved] Simple Question, Simple Answer

[DeadFly]

Okay . . .
My directory structure looks like this :

root/
root/hub_nhl/
root/_inc

I have a file (view_teams.php) in root/hub_nhl/, and I want to access, as a require, files in both the root/ and root/_inc/ directories.
Whats the easiest way to go about it ?

[DeadFly]

I tried using :
require('../config.php');
but it didn't work

[swr]

Use "../file.php" and "../_inc/file.php".

It gets more complicated if include files themselves want to include files, because they don't know which directory they're being run from so they don't know how many directories to ".." up from.

I usually just use php_include_path to set a directory of standard include files, and also auto_prepend_file to set some PHP variables, including URL and local path for the site's web root.

See also realpath, which may be of use:
http://www.php.net/realpath

[cosminb]

set up the include_path in php.ini
or use ini_set

[DeadFly]

for running ini_set, do I just put :

ini_set(include_path, "_inc/");

?
And do I just put that at the top of all my scripts ?

[cosminb]

ini_set("include_path", ini_get("include_path").':/path1/:/path2/subpath2/');