How to reference to a file in different location

[htetnaing]

Hi everyone,

 

This is driving me crazy. I need to reference different files located in different folder structure. For example, I have the following file structure.

 

/my_project/

/my_project/database/database_script.php

/my_project/index.php

 

1. If I want to reference /my_project/index.php from /my_project/database/database_script.php, how can I reference it ?

2. From /my_project/index.php to /my_project/database/database_script.php , it's obvious all I gotta do it include("/database/database_script.php").

 

I use $_SERVER('DOCUMENT_ROOT"), to solve the 1. problem. It works on my XAMPP local machine but when I uplode it onto the server, there's a problem.  The path becomes '/my_project/my_project/database/database_script.php". Is there a universal way (more like a standard way) to reference files in php so that I won't need to change every file path once I upload those onto the server ?

 

Regards,

[onlyican]

First thing is echo your $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

Then work from there

 

so if DOCUMENT_ROOT is /my_project/

then you want

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/index.php');

[htetnaing]

What can i say ? Thanks a lot. Simple yet effective. I never thought of that.