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Posted by Morlaath on 08/30/07 04:06
On Aug 29, 11:00 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com>
wrote:
> In article <1188443617.322132.135...@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
> says...
>
> > Ok .. I have some classes set up to do some database queries and what
> > not. The database configuration is an XML file. Now I need to include
> > this class in a few pages, in different directories. Here is an
> > example of the class.
>
> > class foo {
> > private $xml;
>
> > function foo() {
> > $this->xml = simplexml_load_file('config/dbconfig.xml);
>
> So the call by the simplexml_load_file function is to a file which is
> addressed using a relative rather than absolute (starting with a / on *nix
> or C: on windoze) file path.
>
> > I am using apache which has php set up as a module. This class (which
> > resides 2 directories deep e.g htdocs/classes/foo) works fine in
> > main.php which resides in htdocs.
>
> It's finding it as htdocs/config/dbconfig.xml.
>
> > But if I include this class in
> > another php file which is in a different directory .... say htdocs/
> > forums I get this type of error:
>
> > Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O
> > warning : failed to load external entity "config/dbconfig.xml"
>
> Because it's NOT finding it as htdocs/forum/config/dbconfig.xml. Why, coz
> it ain't there!
>
> > I tried using set_include_path(), which I could not get to work right,
> > and I also tried to set 'include_path' in php.ini which also did not
> > work.
>
> Because include_path is used by the include() function, not by the
> simplexml_load_file() function?
>
> > PHP include seems to work very non-intuitive which is driving me
> > nuts.
>
> It's simply following standard file system rules.
>
> > They really need to implement this a little better. I really
> > don't see why the simplexml_load_file works in htdocs/classes/foo and
> > not htdocs/forums.
>
> Find out what your $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is - use a simple echo
> statement if you need to, or read up about phpinfo() - it's likely it
> will be /<maybe_something>/htdocs or C:\\<maybe_something>\htdocs by the
> sound of it.
>
> The change the call in your function to:
> simplexml_load_file($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/config/dbconfig.xml);
> or whatever absolute path you can use to properly locate the file.
>
> Geoff M
I forgot to write the fact that I was also having a problem with
'include()' for instance including a file with an include, which was
causing a similar problem. I am guessing I could also use
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] for this as well, to use an absolute path
instead of relative.
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