I store my WordPress theme in my Dropbox to use it easily on many machines. Unfortunately require_once()/include_once() doesn't seem to work for me.
Is store original theme at G:\Dropbox\Dropbox\Wordpress\Themes\Blabla\
The symlink is placed at C:\xampp\htdocs\blabla\wp-content\themes\Blabla
When I wanted to require/include any file, eg. C:\xampp\htdocs\blabla\wp-load.php I used to do require_once('../../wp-load.php');
But with symlink all I got is:
Warning: require_once(../../../wp-load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in G:\Dropbox\Dropbox\Wordpress\Themes\Blabla\foo\bar.php on line 2
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '../../../wp-load.php' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in G:\Dropbox\Dropbox\Wordpress\Themes\Blabla\foo\bar.php on line 2
Looks like require_once looks for the file within the Dropbox, not symlink context? Is it possible to fix it somehow? I can't use absolute path as I develop on different machines / different OSes and those vary... Any ideas? How does require_once work when it's symlinked? Does it look for required file in both places (original-context & symlink-context)?
How about putting the original file into you Wordpress folder and symlinking to dropbox? While installing this, you should turn off dropbox on all machines where you did not move the folder yet.