Just to be Clear on Include/Require Paths....

partypete

Hello,

Just to make sure I'm clear on what I've read...

There is NO way (not even with server settings??) to make PHP understand that this:

require_once('/folder/file.php');

Should be interpreted as:

require_once('/home/user/public_html/folder/file.php');

I realize I could do something like this:

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/folder/file.php');

But I would really love it if I could require a page using the same web-root relative url like when inserting an image or link etc:

<a href="/folder/file.php">

Thanks!
Peter

subwayman

Take a look at the php.ini setting for location of includes. This might help.

superwormy

If you're really too lazy to type in the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] before it, why not wrap it in your own function?

function my_include_function($path)
{
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $path);
}

But seriosly... its not THAT much more typing for each include...

subwayman

Take a look at www.php.com/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.include-path

Weedpacket

The point is that

require_once('/folder/file.php');

refers to a file in the server's file system by its absolute file path;

<a href="/folder/file.php">

refers to a URL that is relative to the web site root.

Repeat after me: "Filenames are not URLs. Filenames are not URLs. Filenames are not URLs...."

partypete

If you're really too lazy to type in the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] before it

It's not about me being lazy superwormy. Maybe you are the one who is too lazy to think of other possible reasons a person might want to write a require the way I mentioned other than laziness.

The reason I was wondering if there was a way to get the type of require I mentioned was because I use dreamweaver and some of it's extensions would write requires that way for whatever reason. PHP Includes and MX Includes both wrote includes that way. I wouldn't mind using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] except that again dreamweaver doesn't recognize that version as an include.

Because I saw these extensions etc writing requires/includes the way I mentioned, I thought there must be a way to make PHP understand them as if they were URLs (Thanks Weedpackt for making clear the difference between the paths in an image/link vs. an include/require)

Thanks also to subwayman for the recommendations. I will look into them to see if there is something I can use. But I will definately send a message to Dreamweavers Wishlist asking them to recognize this "require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/folder/file.php');" as an require.

Thanks all.