PHP code and Data - should be on the same drive partition?

[coderNewbie]

I am just beginning my PHP adventure. I was given to understand by some PHP expert (?) known to me, that the PHP code and the data it requires (eg. user data files on the disk) have to be on the same partition of the disk. Is it true?

Can't the code located on one partition (say, "Applications" folder in partition A) access files located on another disk partition (say, "Data" folder in partition 😎 on the same system?

Can anyone please provide some clarification on this.

Thanks in advance.

[bradgrafelman]

coderNewbie wrote:

the PHP code and the data it requires (eg. user data files on the disk) have to be on the same partition of the disk

I would say tell your 'expert' to think again.

PHP can access data just as well as you can. I can open a file using PHP in any hard drive/partition I like (assuming permissions allow this):

$file1 = file_get_contents('D:\file1.doc');
$file2 = file_get_contents('C:\file2.doc');

Assuming allow_url_fopen is set to TRUE, you can even access data via HTTP:

$google = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com');