puzzling question on php include

coldfused

Hi, I'm testing this login script I made, it works on verifying a cookie for an already logged in person. The login script and functions itself work, but here's a problem that I'm not familiar with.
so here goes:

<?php
include("C:\web\wucc\id\wucc.functions.php");
if(islogin()){
 ?>
<!-- SHOW HTML CONTENT -->
<?php 
} else {
echo "not logged in";
}
?>

so I include that file wucc.functions.php, my problem is that if this file lies outside of the directory where wucc.functions.php is within, the login script always say I'm not logged in even though I am.

However if I place the above code within the same directory, then it works perfectly fine.
Anyone help?

thorpe

\ is an escape charactor. Try...

include("C:\\web\\wucc\\id\\wucc.functions.php");

You might want to look into using relative paths too.

coldfused

I tried escaping but that didn' worki and and I did use the relative path, I only tried the absolute path when the other didn't work

include('id/wucc.functions.php');

I only installed php the other day, is it possible i need to edit the php.ini?

tsinka

Hi,

create a common include directory and put the include files into that directory (or subdirectories in that directory if you want to have some include file structure).
Then add that include directory to the include_path variable in php.ini and restart the web server.

It's not neccessary to have include files that are not requested directly with a browser somewhere inside document_root. I'd recommend to have a structure like e.g.

host_base\htdocs
=> html files, php scripts that are requested by a browser, images, css,....

host_base\include
=> include files needed by php scripts in htdocs, add host_base\include to include_path in php.ini

Example:

There are the files
host_base\include\myinclude.php
host_base\include\dir1\anotherinclude.php
host_base\htdocs\index.php

Just use e.g.

require_once 'myinclude.php';
require_once 'dir1/anotherinclude.php';

in host_base\htdocs\index.php

Thomas