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PHP is including relative to the URL path and not the file path, how do you change this?

I have a PHP file /a/b/file.php with the line

require("../connect.php");

In connect.php there is a line

require("../config.inc.php");

This all works fine on my local server. There are a bunch of files using connect.php and they all work fine too.

However on the hosting site /a/b/file.php throws an error:

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 
'../config.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in
/******/connect.php on line 3

I suspect that even though connect.php is in another folder, it's looking for it relative to /a/b. Is there a php.ini setting to change this?

Solution

  • Why dont you use something like:

    require( dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."..".DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."connect.php");

    This way you will avoid problems like when you develop an app on a Unix-Like system and deploy it on a Windows systems, or viceversa.