Posted by David Grant on 01/09/06 17:46

Nuno,

Have you considered $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']?

David

Nuno Trancoso wrote:
> This may sound dumb, but i have been up all night going through
> php/apache docs, and still have not found an answer..
>
> Throughout a site i need to include files that are scattered in subdirs,
> sometimes up in the dir tree, sometimes down. Bad design i know but i
> have to live w/ it...
>
> Problem is in the way Apache/PHP see stuff. If i include /somefile.htm
> in html, it means somefile.htm wich is at site root dir. In PHP it looks
> like it means somefile.htm at SERVER root dir.
>
> I can use getcwd() and go around truncating/adding to the string until i
> get a path to use with set_include_path() to add the site root dir to
> the include path, but it just seems wrong to waste cycles doing it...
>
> So, question is, is there a more direct/elegant way to add the site root
> (or any other dir for that matter) to the include path?
>
> TIA
> Nuno Trancoso
>


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