help with PHP relative paths for includes

[buvwon]

OK... so here's the problem with my site.  It was working perfectly and then my host did some sort of upgrade that included phpSuExec.  What happened, though is that all of my includes are no longer being found.

 

The way the includes are being processed has changed due to the update.  The includes and the library files.  Before, it could just say "include < xxx.php>" or whatever the appropriate syntax is.  Now, it is demanding a file relative path to locate the include, such as "include <../library/xxx.php>.  I have gone through and fixed a number of these.  The problem is that even if I took the time to go through and fix every single include, it seems that in some cases I may fix it for one file, but it will be wrong for another.  That is, if a file calls an include called functions.php which then in turn calls a file called config.php, I can't write an appropriate document relative path because the files calling functions.php are in different folder levels.  So for one, ../library/config.php may be an appropriate path, while for another, library/config.php may be the correct path.  Do you understand what I am saying?

 

The point is, is there a way to turn back on the behavior that existed before the update which was that if a file called an include, it would automatically look in library and include folders?

 

Thanks!