Re: include, relative path

On Apr 30, 7:00 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
^AndreA^ wrote:
Hi everybody,

I'm having a stupid problem with the include command.
I looked around and I found some solutions but, I don't know why, they
don't work at all.

Briefly, this is the structure of my website:

mysite/libraries/db_details.php
mysite/registration/check.php

I need to connect to the database from the script "check.php", and the
details of the database are in "db_details.php", of course... ;-)

so, I have to include "db_details.php" from "check.php" script...

I'm under linux and I've tried so many different solutions without
success, maybe because of the PHP version (5.2.3)... and some
solutions I found were a bit old (2002, 2003) and so I thougth they
could not to work any more.

Here some of them,

Your man problem is that you don't understand how paths works in a
Unix-like environment. It will always be easier to give full paths
instead, but this causes problems if you would move your scripts.

/libraries
This is a subdirectory for the root of the file system, with other words
almost equal to "Libraries:\" from the weird microsoft world.

mysite/libraries/
This case you are looking at a directory which is inside your current
directory, so if you aren't in /, you will of course not find it.

ini_set("include_path",".:/libraries");
include('/..//libraries/db_details.php');

Here you tell to go to root, then get one step closer to root (which
still is root) and then look for the libraries directory, we could
translate this to "Libraries:\".

include("../registration/db_details.php");

This time you back one step from your current directory and from the
parent directory you go into the registration directory and pick the
db_details.php file.

include "db_details.php";

This includes a file in your current directory.

If you are accessingwww.yoursite.com/registration/check.php
then for a relative path include you would use

include "../libraries/db_details.php";

If you then include another file from db_details.php, you have to give
the path relative to check.php, or use full paths.

Keep in mind when you use relative paths, is always relative to the file
you load in the web browse, not to the file itself. One way to get
around some troubles are to use symlinks, this way you can have virtual
directories which are located in the same relative path from the calling
file, but that could be a bit difficult before you have a grasp of how
paths works.

--

//Aho

Guys, sorry for my lateness... Thank you very much for your answers!

At the end I did simple:
include '../libraries/db_details.php';

It seems so simple and sounds strange to me that I didn't try it... I
really don't know what I was thinking that day... ;-)

Anyway, thank you again!!!

bye
.

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