relative to include?

[noastudio]

if you have a file like a.php

 

that includes sys/b.php

 

b.php want to include ../extend/c.php

 

it will try to find the file relative to a.php.

How can I set it to search for c.php relative from b.php

 

Thanks.

[noastudio]

Before anyone asks:

Apache/2.2.4

PHP/5.2.1

win2003

 

 

[wildteen88]

you wont as the included file will be included into a.php

 

any file paths that is in b.php will be relative from a.php and not b.php. This how includes work.

 

What you might want to do is set up a constant and call it ROOT that has an absolute path to your websites root, example path:

/usr/mysite_com/public_html/

 

Then when you go to use include you do something like this:

include ROOT . 'path/to/script/from/root/folder';

That will make your include use absolute paths rather than relative.

 

Or another option is to add the extended folder to the include_path if you have access to the php.ini, or you can use .htaccess / ini_set to modify the php configuration.

[Koobi]

i agree with wildteen's suggestion for using ini_set(). you can do that from within your PHP scripts and it makes life a whole lot easier because maintenance is easy and porting your code isn't an issue.