Posted by Jon Slaughter on 04/21/07 22:36

do I have to prefix every absolute path with document root to get it to
work?

For some reason I thought that prefixing a path with '/' or './' with make
it absolute w.r.t to document root but I guess not?

e.g., when I do

include './Scripts/AddNav.php';

or

include '/Scripts/AddNav.php';

It only happens to work if that path is in the current directory but it
won't goto the root directory.

i.e., the above is doing the exact same as if I did

include 'Scripts/AddNav.php';

But in any case this doesn't work in general unless I use

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/Scripts/AddNav.php';

ofcourse this seems like a mess to do every time I want to use an absolute
path... which is a lot.

Is that what I'm stuck with doing or is there a function, say, like abp that
will take a path and prefix the document root to it?

Thanks,
Jon

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