include/require path problems

tylerdurden44

hello.

I'm getting fatal errors when i try to do the following:

require_once("/defaults.php");

but it will work if i remove the slash (/). Why can't i use an absolute path? Relative paths are not ideal, because i have so many classes and templates in a specific file heirarchy.
is it possible i have to do something with the "include_path" configuration option? Id f so, how would i do that?

Thanks

Pig

You can use the absolute path, but putting / in front of your file name has nothing to do with the absolute path. You can manually enter in the full path:
include("www/u/username/htdocs/some/file.php");
You can also use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] if you want to make it more portable.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by tylerdurden44
hello.

I'm getting fatal errors when i try to do the following:
require_once("/defaults.php");
but it will work if i remove the slash (/). [/B]

In this case it is working because defaults.php is (probably) in the same directory as the script that's requiring it (if not there, then in the path). "/defaults.php" is almost certainly another place entirely - your system's root directory - and the script is not there.