Directories and include?

[neo8744]

ok, i been trying to use include(). and i got it to work, as long as the file i want to include is in the same directory. however, when the file that needs another file is in a subdirectory, i don't know how to write the code/relative path so that it will find the correct file. i keep getting the "Failure to open file" error, and it won't work.

can anyone tell me what to do??

i tried using the absolute url but that doesn't work either.

possibly, if some1 can explain "/", ".", and ".." when referring to relative paths, that would be helpful as well.

[drawmack]

. = this directory and therefor is useless in this context
.. = up one level
/ = a directory seperator

for example let's say your directory tree looks like this

root
- scripts_1
- - some_script.php
- scripts_2
- - some_other_script.php
- index.php

to include some_script.php in index.php you would type include_once('scripts_1/some_script.php');. to include some_script.php in some_other_script.php you would type include_once('../scripts_1/some_script.php');

understand?

[pjleonhardt]

what about if u have to go up 2 levels?

../../dsds ?!?!

[neo8744]

yeah, 2+ directories...how would that work?

is there a general way to write it so that it will ALWAYz get that script in root?

and does include work with non-php files, such as a .html file?