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handling files from different folders


wendu

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hey

 

a newb question

 

how can I with PHP handle files that are in different folders?

 

currently, when I'm inside temp and need to reference the folder that contains temp, and a file in it, I use

 

../index.php

 

but sometimes it's not known at what level I am, so I could do a full reference, like http://example.com/index.php but that's not very wise I'm told

 

also, depending on the platform, I cannot use /index.php because that might not always be the root, where the Web content is

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I am a bit lost on your question.

 

You can call files from different folders with php, and include them in the current script.

 

Such as:

<?php
//in current dir.
include("file.php");
//up a folder, a in the folder name: folder_name
include("../folder_name/file.php");
?>

 

Maybe you can rephrase your question.

 

-Lamez :)

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Certainly!

 

because I'm using SSI, and have includes (php requires) I can't change those includes when I go up a directory or down a directory, it has to know itself where I'm currently calling it from, and based on that make linkes to ROOT/contact.php work (instead of ROOT/temp/contact.php)

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Depending what you are trying to do with the referenced file you can either call it via a full path or referenced path.

 

If you are in /var/temp and you you need to access /var/file.txt you can either reference it is ../file.txt or /var/file.txt

 

If the file(s) are web accessible you could use the URL like for linking images.

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Depending what you are trying to do with the referenced file you can either call it via a full path or referenced path.

 

If you are in /var/temp and you you need to access /var/file.txt you can either reference it is ../file.txt or /var/file.txt

 

If the file(s) are web accessible you could use the URL like for linking images.

 

that's whaat I thought, so I need to use full reference. it's okay, really. :)

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