Path looks Messy

[unemployment]

Any way to tell php to start at the root directory rather than having all these "../"

 

include('../../../../assets/init.inc.php');

[trq]

Have a look at the $_SERVER array.

[marcus]

Just starting the path with a forward slash puts you in the root directory. So the full path would be something like:

/home/user/public_html/path/to/assets/init.inc.php

[Mahngiel]

Just starting the path with a forward slash puts you in the root directory. So the full path would be something like:

/home/user/public_html/path/to/assets/init.inc.php

To which you could also set a definition for ease of future use:

<?php
define('ASSETS', '/home/user/public_html/awesome_app/views/assets/');

// so
include( /home/user/public_html/awesome_app/views/assets/init.inc.php );

// becomes
include( ASSETS . 'init.inc.php');

[trq]

Better yet, add /home/user/public_html/awesome_app/views/assets/ you to your include_path and use:

 

include 'init.inc.php';