help with using include("../");

[seany123]

basically i want to be able to include a file.. in other files within  folders.

 

i have a universal include which holds my template etc and i have a include in there which mess's up when being called by a file inside a folder...

 

now i know usually you can just use.

 

include("../file.php");

 

or you can define the entire url of the included file.. but i was wondering if there was another way?

[JasonLewis]

You need to define an absolute path that is available to your files, that way you can just use the absolute path for the include instead of relative paths.

[wildteen88]

You could do something like this instead

include $_SERVER'[DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/file.php';

 

or you can define the entire url of the included file..

Includes behave differently if you're using a url to include the file. It'll only include the output of the included PHP file rather than the actual PHP code.

[DarkMantis]

You could do something like this instead

include $_SERVER'[DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/file.php';

 

Sorry, Dont mean to intrude. Just 2 quick things.

 

I believe the above was supposed to be

 

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/file.php';

 

The single quote was outside the square bracket.

 

Also, just for the record, I may be wrong here, but IMHO, it is better to use require_once than include as the script will die if something goes wrong with it. This is esspecially good when "including" a config file, template class or anything which is neccessary.

 

Best Regards,

Mantyy

[seany123]

You could do something like this instead

include $_SERVER'[DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/file.php';

 

Sorry, Dont mean to intrude. Just 2 quick things.

 

I believe the above was supposed to be

 

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/file.php';

 

The single quote was outside the square bracket.

 

Also, just for the record, I may be wrong here, but IMHO, it is better to use require_once than include as the script will die if something goes wrong with it. This is esspecially good when "including" a config file, template class or anything which is neccessary.

 

Best Regards,

Mantyy

 

thankyou for your post.. i have used the code you added and it worked good.

 

the file im currently including only displays 4 tables... but because there is alot of ifs etc in the table i felt it would be less clutter to somple just include the file.. so require_once really isnt needed.

 

however i will be looking into adding require_once for my config.php and possibly my template (although im guessing template is not so important.)

 

anyway problem solved now thanks for help.

[DarkMantis]

No Problem. Glad I could help and happy that you got it sorted now