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sven4077

This is a tricky question I think. I am including a page in my index.php in the root folder. The included page is oscommerce/includes/application_top.php. Inside application_top.php is many many many require(...); functions usually with the location of boxes/something.php or classes/file.php or search.php... Now when I include the app_top page I get the error that the other pages cannot be found. I assume thats because the app_top file thinks its in the root folder now that its been included. Is that a correct assumption? It doesnt matter what the reason is, actually lol. I just would like to know what I can do about it, so it sees the files in the correct places, without touching application_top.php. Please help, I'm desperate!! well not really, just confused; lol. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

daynah

You can try including files using their absolute paths. Something similar to:

<? include('/www/htdocs/oscommerce/includes/application_top.php'); ?>

sven4077

Using the absolute path didnt work. Thanks anyways though. Any other ideas, anyone?

rehfeld

im sure they meant to use absolute file paths for all the files.

an easier way to make your file paths absolute would be like so

include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/path/to/script.php');

btw- including a file should NOT change php's current working directory. the only way that gets changed is if there is a call to chdir() somewhere.

but, there was a member on another board who was having this problem. we went through all the possibilites and it did appear that included files in different directories were changing php's current working dir. you may want to check bugs.php.net for your version of php.

sven4077

Wells thats strange. I suppose a bug makes a little more sense. I've used the same method for including files on another server, and didnt give me the error. I actually ended up just changing the paths, in the file I didnt want to change, to absolute, and I dont get any errors. It doesnt work as it should, but no errors. lol. Thats a question for oscommerce though. Thanks all.