document root

[furtivefelon]

hi, i have many folders on my application.. so i want to link a couple of the common files to all the files in the application... and if i do a ../inc/file-name-here.php the index (which is at the document root) cannot find the files.. since they includes a "../" which means jump to the previous folder.. how do you declare everything start from document root?

[devinemke]

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

[SumitGupta]

Hi..

You can include using "/<folder1>/filename" just remove the two dots ".." now the include will read it as root domain/<folder1>/filename And hence always pick the file from the root of the application or
it is better to put file in root and access it same way.