find the path to another file

[ratcateme]

I have two files

/var/www/html/phpeasycaptcha/Main.class.php

and

/var/www/html/pec.php

and i want to find the path between them so that pec.php can link to Main.class.php

 

Scott.

[phpzone]

<?php
       require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/phpeasycaptcha/Main.class.php';
?>

[ratcateme]

i want a method to do it from the

/var/www/html/phpeasycaptcha/Main.class.php file

and also i want it to work no matter what dir the files are in.

 

Scott.

[phpzone]

Then in Main.class.php you want to include pec.php?

 

Ok... if your other file is always one directory up then the following....

 

<?php

 

        require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/pec.php';

 

?>

 

If it's anywhere on the system, I'm not 100% sure but you could use passthru and search with a system command:

 

<?php

$basepath = '/var/www/html';

$result = passthru("find {$basepath} -name 'pec.php' -print");

echo $result;

?>

 

 

[ratcateme]

no what happens is pec.php includes Main.class.php

inside Main.class.php i can get the location of the url called by $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]

and i can get the location of Main.class.php by __FILE__

so that will return

/var/www/html/pec.php for $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]

and

/var/www/html/phpeasycaptcha/Main.class.php for __FILE__

what i want is to find the path to the /var/www/html/phpeasycaptcha/ dir from pec.php without any hard code so the dir could change to something like this

/var/www/html/random/phpeasycaptcha/

and would still work without having to change the code

[phpzone]

I updated my last post, perhaps a system search will help.

 

<?php
$basepath = '/var/www/html';
$result = passthru("find {$basepath} -name 'Main.class.php' -print");
echo $result;
?>

[ratcateme]

hmm yea not really what i want as there could be a lot of files to search through i don't know if this is a very good thing to do i think i might look for another way but thanks for the help

 

Scott.

[phpzone]

No probs, maybe someone else can help.

 

Why do you need to do this btw., I would be interested in why there is a need?

[ratcateme]

i am creating  a class to create captcha's (words with lines through them that are hard to read) and i have 2 files one with the main class to output the html code.

in that there will be an <img> tag linking it to display.php that will output a jpeg image with the word and fuzzy lines.

i want to do this so i can tell it where to find display.php to load the image

 

Scott.

 

[phpzone]

Ok.  I don't see the reason for having to 'find' things.

 

I've done this and usually on my sites I have a structure like:

 

/images/

/classes/

/templates/

header.php

index.php

config.php

footer.php

 

My can you not have a standard structure, keep your image.php in /images/ and your class in a

folder?  Then have a variable in config.php that defines your BASE_PATH and use that?