Referencing parent directory with ../

[Avochelm]

How do you reference a parent directory in the php world?

Example:

include "../index.php"; // does not work.

But in HTML, a link would work:

<a href="../index.php">Link</a>

[bike5]

try include("../index.php");

[Avochelm]

No success.

[bubblenut]

<?php
include(substr($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],0,strrpos($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],'/')).'/index.php');
?>

Should work, but you really shouldn't need to do that. Does it throw any errors? You could try the following.

<?php
$file='../index.php';
if(is_file($file)) {
  echo("Well it's definately a file<br />\n");
  if(is_readable($file)) {
    echo("and it's readable!!<br />\n");
  } else {
    echo("Oh, but it's not readable by apache. Guess I need to change the permissions.");
  }
} else {
  echo("It's not even a file!!<br />\n");
}
?>

HTH
Bubble

[Avochelm]

Oh never mind... I just did something really stupid during a long coding session. I was reading an error message incorrectly. An include wasn't working inside the file that I included because I was working from a different directory.

🙁

Well, thanks for introducing me to the is_file function. 😃