How to write correctly path in include function?

[SGUserFace]

How to write correctly path in include function?

 

[Jacques1]

Write a coherent problem description (preferably with actual code), then we might be able to help you.

[ginerjm]

Just realize that burying a specific path inside a function limits its portability. If there has to be a path why not pass it in as an argument?

 

Or are you referring to the include STATEMENT, and not a user-written function? If so, I think you can answer that yourself.

Edited July 21, 2016 by ginerjm

[SGUserFace]

Write a coherent problem description (preferably with actual code), then we might be able to help you.

How to get the root directory of project

I dont want to use any time ../

include(What is the root? . 'images/default.png');

[ginerjm]

And again - you want this in a function? It s/b passed in as part of the parms.

 

BTW - you want to use an include statement for a .png file? Makes no sense.

[Jacques1]

There is no magical function for getting the project root, because PHP doesn't know that path.

 

What you can do is have the webserver set an environment variable with the project root (how exactly that works depends on your webserver; google it). PHP has then access to that variable:

require_once $_SERVER['MY_PROJECT_ROOT'].'/path/to/script.php';

Alternatively, you could define a constant with the path within PHP (e. g. in a configuration script). But that means you always need to load the initial script with an “ugly” path before you can use the constant for everything else:

<?php

define('MY_PROJECT_ROOT', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/path/to/project/');

<?php

require_once __DIR__.'/../relative/path/to/config.php'
require_once MY_PROJECT_ROOT.'/path/to/some/script.php';    // now MY_PROJECT_ROOT is available