[thelist] PHP, include() and relative links
Michael Wolfe
wolfboy69 at earthlink.net
Fri May 25 12:18:32 CDT 2001
At 05:40 PM 5/25/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Could anyone tell me how to use absolute roots - if that's the right way of
>putting it - and the include command in PHP, or am I trying to do the
>impossible.
>
>I want to be able to include a file called template.php located in a files
>directory. I want this file to be included by several different files held
>in different directories. I thought this could be acheived using
>include("/file/template.php") but it doesn't seem to want to work.
Peter,
What I usually do is declare a variable that points to DOCUMENT_ROOT in a
file called globals.php, which I include with every file.
here's the code snippet
<?php
$DR = $DOCUMENT_ROOT;
?>
Here's the line I include in all of my files:
<?php
include($DOCUMENT_ROOT."/inc/globals.php");
?>
And then, when I want to use absolute references, I use something like this:
<?php
include($DR."/inc/db.inc.php");
?>
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