Stupid question

[Arbitus]

So I started learning PHP/mysql and had a few stupid questions.

 

• If I had a file in /admin and wanted to include something in my home directory, how do I do that? I read somewhere you do something like include("$_SERVER[]/file.php"); but don't know exactly what goes in the brackets.
  
• How do I make it when I call something from a database that is in all lowercase letters, it displays it with the first letter being capitalized ex. "house" is in database and "House" is displayed
  

 

These are the first of probably many questions. Thanks so much!

 

[genericnumber1]

You could $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] which is what you described, or you can do '../file.php'.

 

".." goes up one directory.

 

As for capitalizing the first letter? simplest way is ucfirst http://us3.php.net/ucfirst

 

edit: also note you'll need to do

include("{$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/file.php");

to avoid any error messages, if that is the route you decide to choose.

[IchBin]

On your first question include() OR require()/require_once() all take a path. You can use a relative if you'd like, or a full path. So if you're site was structured like this in a folder view.

-www

--admin

---functions.php

--index.php

 

You could put a line like this:

include('admin/functions.php');

 

That would be a path that is relative to the file you are including it in. If you need to use a script that is outside of your relative path its better to use the full path. On Unix/Linux hosts it would something similar to this.

include('/home/username/folder/folder/filename');

 

ucfirst() is for uppercase letter on the first characeter.

 

--edit

generidnumber1 beat me to it...

 

[Arbitus]

Thanks so much! Just tried the ucfirst() and worked perfectly! I'll try that too, thanks again.