Including a file with includes

parawizard

Well it seems Im stumped. I have a main site which includes files in DIV tags to load as plugins. Now my problem is when I have a filed included in the file that I include to the MAIN PAGE. It will not be able to include the files that need to be included in the plugins. Instead of going to the root directory of the file it goes to the root directory of the MAIN PAGE File. Now I did tons of searching and I now use

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].restoffilename

thats great and all BUT IT STILL DOES NOT WORK! %*&#@)%@ because it using the main pages ROOT still. because IM in the building stage of my plugins I DO NOT WANT TO have to load them into the main page for them to work ( I dont want to change the includes to real paths for the plugins). This would be a hassle now and a hassle later.

How can I get includes to work if they included in a file??

or how else can output everything in a file inside a DIV tag?

parawizard

guess ill just have to stick everything from my content management module and my plugins in one big ugly god damn folder............ PHP supposed to be neat code but it cant work out to have a tidy directory how IRONIC

tommynanda

I didnt get your Q quite well.. but cant we use fpassthru() in this case... I dont know.. am just trying to recall ur memory 😃

Weedpacket

Hmm... nothing in the $_SERVER array. Reasonable, really, now that I come to think about it - the server doesn't care how PHP puts its output together. But I do know that ... ah, yes, here it is: The FILE constant. That's the full name (including path) of the file in which it is used.

parawizard

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Hmm... nothing in the $_SERVER array. Reasonable, really, now that I come to think about it - the server doesn't care how PHP puts its output together. But I do know that ... ah, yes, here it is: The FILE constant. That's the full name (including path) of the file in which it is used.

hmmm yes. That is a possability. I would have to cut off the last part of the FILE string to the script directory then add that too the rest of the path depending on where the file is: sub directory same directory ETC. Goofy process really. Im not sure if its gonna do me any good using this or not. This doesnt keep my code clean but instead allows me to use subdirectories.

just figured out dirname(FILE) hehe 🙂 so that works better. Thanks for giving the info on FILE 🙂.

include(dirname(__FILE__)."filetoincludesdirectory\filetoinclude");

Also weedpacket do you think its better to do all in one directory project? or do you think subdirectories making a clean structured PHP project is better? Do you know any other werid hassles of having the project in sub directories? Thanks for all your help!@