Just use absolute paths.
If your webserver is looking at the root directory, /index.phtml and
index.phtml are the same file
Matt
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From: WMB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:03 PM
Subject: [PHP] Continued story on : PHP includes without access to the
default directory//Tom Rogers//
> Hi, original messagethread on dec 6, 2002, but still have following
question
> on same/continued subject by Tom Rogers:(see below)
>
> Like you say it works (with the correction) "." for which my thanks, but:
>
> if one my includes is a menu.php where there are links inside, how should
> these work from rootdirectory and from subdirectories.
> for rootfilelinks they now just say f.i. index.php, but when called from
> inside a subdirectories they are supposed to say /index.php.
>
> Any solutions for this one??
> thanks
> Martin
> =====================Original Posting===============================
> Saturday, December 7, 2002, 7:15:38 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> ini_set
> G> ("include_path","/path/to/local/includes:"ini_get("include_path"));
> >>
> >> Then no matter what directory you are in you can just
> include("filename");
> >>
> >> --
> >> regards,
> >> Tom
> >>
>
> G> Thank you. This should work, but I have one question about the format
of
> G> that. this way I can make sure I do things right (getting a parse error
> G> right now)
>
> G> what did you mean by "include_path"?
> G> /path/to/local/includes is just the path to the default includes
folder?
> G> and is include_path just the path to the includes folder that I use.
And
> G> with this, do I use the URL, or the file path (what I get whenever I
get
> G> errors)
>
> G> and thank you again
> Looks like I forgot a '.' in there :)
> "/path/to/local/includes:" is the path to your new includes, we do that
> first so
> that is the first place it will look . The ':' is used to add in another
> path
> which we use ini_get() to retrieve the system wide include file from
> php.ini.
> You may drop this and the ':' if you don't need it.
>
> so if you are setup like this for example
>
> /home/username/public_html/...........web directory
> /home/username/includes/..............your include directory
>
> the line would be
>
>
ini_set("include_path","/home/username/includes:".ini_get("include_path"));
>
> --
> regards,
> Tom
>
>
>
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