Using References in PHP

chrisguk

Hi there,

I have MOD_REWRITE enabed for my website and wondered if there are any implications of using the following code on the Ubuntu webserver. I only have access about Puclic html for your info:

<? require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. "/include/script.php");?>

Here is my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^robots\.txt$
#RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+) index.php?p=$1/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/? index.php?p=$1

bradgrafelman

What type of "implications" are you talking about? I don't really understand what your question is.

chrisguk

What I mean is, the code below. Would it prevent the website functioning properly once I publish it to my host server running in Ubuntu.

It is the best way of referencing an include. Sorry if I am not using the right words but im fairly new to PHP.

<? require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. "/include/script.php");?>

bradgrafelman

Nothing you used there is OS-dependent (well, except for the forward-slashes being used as a directory separator in the path, but I think just about every major OS handles them without a problem).

chrisguk

Thanks Brad,

Is there a better way to reference the include then?

Derokorian

The only thing I would suggest is not using short open tags <? and instead using the full opening tag <?php other than that, this is exactly how you use include there's no "better" way.

bradgrafelman

There are many ways to reference files on the file system... whether one is "better" than another in the end is pretty much a personal opinion.

Assuming for a moment there was some universal entity that ranked how "better" one file path was over another, why would you want one that is "better" than the above?