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Posted by Martin Mouritzen on 11/01/06 19:51
On 1 Nov 2006 11:10:05 -0800, "jesbuddy07" <jesbuddy07@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Can anyone point me to a right direction in terms of using / and ../
>directives to point to a file using PHP?
>
>i'm so confused when to use / or ../ or sometimes even without /.
>
>i'm writing php file in a /x/y directory, and the file i want to
>include resides is /x/z directory. in /x/y directory, I tried the
>following statements, but none of them works
>
>include("x/z");
>include("/x/z");
>include("../x/z");
>
>can any PHP guru out there please tell me when to use /, ../ or none at
>all??
I can try:
/ at the start means "root".
Let's use your examples, and say that your website is located in the
folder
/var/www/sites/somedomain.com/ on the webserver.
then the following is true:
: include("x/z");
tries to include /var/www/sites/somedomain.com/x/z
:include("/x/z");
tries to include /x/z
:include("../x/z");
tries to include /var/www/sites/x/z
Most of the time when I include things, I use the variable
$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] which always points to the root of the
current website.
Let me know if anything needs clarifying.
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best regards,
Martin Mouritzen.
http://www.siteloom.dk
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