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Salathe · 07-07-2010, 06:40 PM

The best way to make sure the right path is used, is to provide an absolute one. Commonly that means using something like __DIR__ (or dirname(__FILE__) if you're not blessed with being able to use PHP 5.3 yet) to get the absolute path to the file the constant is written in.

For example, inside your head.php file:

PHP Code:


			
include __DIR__ . '/../Admin/Docs/head.txt';

If the path to head.php was /home/path/to/site/includes/head.php then __DIR__ would be /home/path/to/site/includes. That would make the included file be located at /home/path/to/site/includes/../Admin/Docs/head.txt which is just the same as /home/path/to/site/Admin/Docs/head.txt.

With that, you would continue including the head.php as you are and the path would always be correct for the head.txt file.

07-07-2010, 06:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
Salathe Moderateur Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,393 Thanks: 5	The best way to make sure the right path is used, is to provide an absolute one. Commonly that means using something like `__DIR__` (or `dirname(__FILE__)` if you're not blessed with being able to use PHP 5.3 yet) to get the absolute path to the file the constant is written in. For example, inside your `head.php` file: PHP Code: `include __DIR__ . '/../Admin/Docs/head.txt';` If the path to `head.php` was `/home/path/to/site/includes/head.php` then `__DIR__` would be `/home/path/to/site/includes`. That would make the included file be located at `/home/path/to/site/includes/../Admin/Docs/head.txt` which is just the same as `/home/path/to/site/Admin/Docs/head.txt`. With that, you would continue including the `head.php` as you are and the path would always be correct for the `head.txt` file.