Using includes for directories, not just files?

dmacman1962

Hi all,

I am "trying" to work with our ISP who host the sites and they are running Apache and PHP/MySQL but they do not give us access (of course) to the httpd.conf file to setup our directories for include files, so I am 'attempting" to do it with PHP. I saw this...

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/top.php');

on php.net and was wondering if this could be used to give access to an entire directory, not just a specific file?

For example: I use an include directory and an images directory and it would be nice to just do...

include('header.php');

and have all files be able to access it regardless of how many subdirectories deep they are.

That way, the header.php file would work regardless of what file included it (note: the header.php file has many scripts and graphics in it and does not work, when a file 3 directories deep includes it, but works great when accessed from the root).

Does that make sense?

Thanks in advance,

Don

Installer

Why not just use the first line of code you posted?

thorpe

[man]set_include_path/man accepts a colon seperated list of directories. Just dont forget to include the allready defined path first. eg...

set_include_path(get_include_path().':/home/usr/lib/:/home/usr/functions/');

dmacman1962

Hi installer and thorpe,

Thanks for the responses.

To be perfectly clear, the two directories I am trying to set with the include are in the root of the site and are...

1) includes
2) images

In regards to installers idea. I tried just the first line and that would work, if I did that for each indivual file, which is what I am trying to avoid. (Unless I am mistaken?)

And thorpes answer, I did what you suggested, but I am a little grey on the path...

/home/usr/lib/

I set my include as such (Note: our ISP tells me their path on the apache system is - /home/inthecla/public_html/) and I checked it with

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

set_include_path(get_include_path().':/home/usr/lib/:/home/usr/functions/:/home/usr/images/:/home/usr/includes/');

(is this correct?)...

or should it be...


set_include_path(get_include_path().':/home/usr/lib/:/home/usr/functions/:/home/inthecla/public_html/images/:/home/inthecla/public_html/includes/');

I tried both and I could not get an image I placed on the page to work (it could not find it, which tells me the include for the images directory did not work).

Thanks for the help, any ideas?

Don

thorpe

The paths I posted where just examples. You would need to use...

set_include_path(get_include_path().':/home/inthecla/public_html/includes/:/home/inthecla/public_html/images/');

I tried both and I could not get an image I placed on the page to work

This method wont work for images. This is php functionality and has no baring on where browsers will look for files.

Read up on [man]set_include_path[/man] for more info.

thorpe

Actually... I just looked at the manual and really, there isn't alot of info there. Basically, whenever you call [man]include/man, [man]require/man, or even [man]fopen/man php automatically searches through your include path.