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php include not working on mamp

The require_once statement in my code is not working on MAMP. The same code was working perfectly on WAMP earlier before I ported the project over.

require_once('class\validate_group.php');

The error I get with this is:

Warning: require_once(class\validate_group.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/validate_login.php on line 37

The phpinfo.php is showing the include path as:

.:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs

"class" is a folder inside htdocs

Strangely when I reverse the slash it starts reading the validate_group.php file. Will the reversed slashes still work in AWS where I am finally going to host this?

Solution

  • To answer your question, backslash in PHP is normally used to escape characters.

    So you've escaped the \validate_group.php file in your require_once call.

    You can use a pre-defined constant such as:

    DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR to avoid this in future.