Do file* functions accept full directory-paths?

[Goldeneye]

I have a templating system that I'm currently using:

(This is the only relevant (to my problem) function)

<?php
class template {
	var $page;

	function page($template){
		if(file_exists($template)) $this->page = join('', file($template));
		else exit('"'.$template.'" could not be found.');
  		}
}
$layout = new template;
?>

 

This is essentially how I'm trying to use it.

 

<?php
define('sp', 'http://foobar.com/generic/'); //Path to the PHP-Scripts
define('tp', sp.'templates/'); //The Path to the directory that contains the template-directories.
$_SESSION['path'] = 'style_42'; //This comes from a database field that the use can change.
$layout->page(tp.$_SESSION['path'].'login.html');
?>

 

I thought this code would work, but when I tried it, I got the "http://foobar.com/generic/templates/style_42/login.html" could not be found (as returned by the $layout->page() function. The path is valid (if you copy/paste it into the address-bar and view it, the HTML-File does show up. The file_exists() function says otherwise, though.

 

Is There a reason or solution for this? Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

A preemptive thanks.

[roopurt18]

There's some stuff in php.ini that controls whether or not PHP will open files given as URLs, so you might look into that.

 

Otherwise full paths work, for example:

c:\a\path\to\this\file.txt

/home/users/joeboo/myfile.txt