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[phpgoal]

Hi,

 

I am using file zilla to upload file.

 

I have files as below:

 

folder1

  folder1file1.php

  foder2

    folder2file.php

    folder3

       folder3file.php

 

Now i am working with folder3file.php. In php, i want to include folder1file.php. How can i do it?

 
<?php 
'include 'folder1/folder1file1.php'; ?>

not working. Could you please help?

 

-P

[phpgoal]

Also, if you could provide me any link where i can learn it. it would be great. I did search but could not find something specific.

 

Thanks.

[requinix]

Use absolute paths whenever possible, either using the DOCUMENT_ROOT or __DIR__.

// works regardless of where you are
include $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/folder1/folder1file1.php";

// have to know the relative path between the current file and the one you want
include __DIR__ . "/../../folder1file1.php";

[AbraCadaver]

I and many others would not do this.  I would use a file in the top most directory to control the application and include other files.  However, to do this you either need to give the relative path from where you are, or the absolute path:

//two ways for relative
include('../../folder1file1.php');
include('../../../folder1/folder1file1.php');

//example absolute
include('/var/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/folder1/folder1file1.php');

[Barrikor]

Maybe what you'll want to do is just change the folder PHP includes files from?

 

If you're running a PHP file in folder1/folder2/folder3 then PHP is looking for files from folder3's location, which I doubt is what you really want. You probably want to change the running directory to the folder that your folder1 is in. The function for that is chdir().

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.chdir.php

 

 

 

so if you're 3 folders up from where you want to be, chdir() down 3 folders:

 

chdir('../../../');

 

 

Now your includes should all work the way you wanted on your post:

 

include 'folder1/folder1file1.php';

[phpgoal]

worked perfectly. Thank you.