Hello all,

Please help me with this. I know this is an easy one, but for some reason i can't figure it out.

I have created an include file in the following directory

root/includes/filename.php

and my code looks something like:

<?php include("includes/header.php");?>

my files were in the root directory, and the includes displayed fine. I have moved the files into another directory one level down

root/directory/filename.php

from the root. I'd like to continue to use the same include file (I don't want to have two separate "includes" directories for the same files)

Can anyone tell me how to get around this?

You have moved the files...and you are wondering why that code isn't working? The files need to be in the same place relative to the includes. So if you move the include folder into the same folder as the main php code it should work.

Jamie

I understand that, but the thing is, I have a lot of files in my root directory calling the same include file. When I moved the files into the new directory, I just changed my css link from:

css/maincss.css

to

/css/maincss.css

and it worked fine. I was thinking I could do the same thing with the include files but obviously that's not the case.

'/' will take you back to root.

ex: include ( '/includes/file.php' ); will grab root/includes/file.php

'./' will take you back a directory i believe

ex: include ( './inlcudes/file.php' ); is probably what you want. Try that and let me know

oops!

I am not sure am I understand you, but maybe this script below can help you.

PHP Code:

<?php 
include_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/somefolder/file.php"; 
?>

This script will always call your right file.php from any directory irrespective how deep is it.

Shivaji

Originally Posted by bhgchris

'/' will take you back to root.

ex: include ( '/includes/file.php' ); will grab root/includes/file.php

'./' will take you back a directory i believe

ex: include ( './inlcudes/file.php' ); is probably what you want. Try that and let me know

Perfect, that's all I needed. It actually worked when I used ('../includes/file.php') Thanks a lot for all of your help.

'./' will take you back a directory i believe

Just for the record, this assumption is false.
./ means "in this directory"

../ means "up 1 directory"


the ./ is historically coming from unixes computers. The executable are not searched in the current directory, so to specify we want to run a program in the directory we are, ./myprogram must be typed.

This is still the case today in linux/bsd/osx in terminals

I realized that afterwards. Thanks for clarifying

Why not create a config file to simply the process