Posted by Rik on 03/07/07 18:39

Areric <josh.schramm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I'm trying to get feedback on how people handle "elevating" code from
> a development environment to a production or qa environment.
>
> Mainly my concern lies in how people manage php include statements.
> Generally my sites are developed locally on my machine, then elevated
> to a shared hosting environment as their "production" server. In the
> past i've run into nothing but problems using include statements as
> the file structures don't mimic each other. Now, the file structures
> are obviously identical when you compare anything below my web sites
> root folder but when you look at the entire heirarchy it never works
> right.
>
> I have tried relative pathing, but i find that if i use relative
> pathing to include a file in another folder, and that file in turn
> includes another file it never can resolve the path correctly.

Include relative to the document-root ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] normally).

Also, for classes & php5, check the __autoload() function.

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