Problem with including and reading files.

[dono]

I have a little framework. The core files are placed on the directory /system/.
This files are System.php, Dispatch.php, Settings.ini.
Inside the system direcotrory are sub directories such as /commands/, /gui/.

Now all that you need to include on a client file is the file System.php which reads settings.ini and makes it avaible through an array to all child classes. The code reading code from system.php is simply:
fopen("Settings.ini", w) or die ("Error");
This works great however when system.php is included by a client coder into a a file outside the directory System/ the file cannot be read.

I want to make this flexible. Do you have any solutions?

[bpat1434]

One solution would be to have the user set the include directory in php as part of the install. I.e. edit the .htaccess file for the site (or whatever portion) to include_dir(). For an example of this go to ********instance.com and you can see a few examples as well as a tutorial. The article is called "Death to the Dot". It works very well and but but requires that the user manually edit his .htaccess file.

That's the easiest solution I can give. You might look at how SMF (www.simplemachines.org) does it. With their SSI.php script you can include that from anywhere and it seems to work. I can't tell you definitively, but it seems like they look at two or three directories above and/or below the current one for Settings.php. Not sure if that will help you or not.