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Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths

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On 20/03/13 05:45, The Frog wrote:

> I have a directory under the site root called config, and another called scripts. In the config directory I have some basic stuff like constants that I define for the site (eg/ db.php for the database constants such as username, server, etc...). Referencing this with the following php from index.php works fine:
> <?PHP require_once 'config/db.php';
>        require_once 'config/config.php';
> //do stuff here
> ?>
>
> Where I am having a problem is when I try to reference the files from a script that is in the scripts directory (or any other for that matter). I have tried to set a constant in the config/config.php file that points to the root of the site with the following:
> define(APP_ROOT, realpath( dirname( __FILE__ ) ).'/');

You have the super global $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], so you can use

require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/config/db.php';

ypu can also us the include_path in php.ini and add the path to the 
document root in which case you then can use:

require_once 'config/db.php';


-- 

  //Aho

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Seeking help with relative and absolute paths The Frog <mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-19 21:45 -0700
  Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-03-20 06:45 +0100
  Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-20 06:46 -0400
    Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-03-20 19:10 +0100
      Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths The Frog <mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-21 21:24 -0700
        Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-03-22 08:11 +0100
          Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths The Frog <Mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-22 19:38 +1100
            Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-22 09:01 -0400
            Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-22 14:33 +0100
          Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-22 06:12 -0700
            Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths The Frog <Mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-23 23:57 +1100
              Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-23 07:25 -0700
                Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2013-03-23 16:24 +0100
                Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths The Frog <Mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-24 15:09 +1100
                Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-24 07:27 -0700
                Re: Seeking help with relative and absolute paths Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-24 12:24 -0400

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