On Thu, May 11, 2006 3:17 pm, Steven Stromer wrote:
> For years I was lulled into thinking I understood php include
> functions...
>
> I have always used relative paths in my include and related functions,
> for instance:
> include_once ("lib/included.php");
>
> However, I am now needing to switch to absolute paths:
> include_once ("/lib/included.php");
This would require that your have something like this on your server:
/bin
/root
/lib/included.php
> This doesn't work. Generates error:
>
> Warning: main(/lib/included.php) [function.main.html]: failed to open
> stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/sites/sitename/index.php
> on line 8
>
> Warning: main() [function.include.html]: Failed opening
> '/lib/included.php' for inclusion
> (include_path='.:/var/www/sites/sitename') in
> /var/www/sites/sitename/index.php on line 8
>
> I would think I need to correct the include_path in php.ini, but the
> include_path seems right. The file I want to include does exist at:
> /var/www/sites/sitename/lib/included.php
>
> I always believed that the include_path and the path in the include()
> function were simply concatenated, but I now think that I am just
> plain
> wrong, as the error is reproducible on OS X, Fedora and everywhere
> else
> I test it.
Don't put the '/' in the front, and they are concatenated.
Put a '/' on the front, and PHP assumes you are giving a COMPLETE and
ABSOLUTE path in the file-system.
> Am I not taking into account some other directive that affects
> include_path, like 'doc_root' in php.ini, or 'DocumentRoot' or
> 'ServerRoot' in httpd.conf? Or is this a permissions issue of some
> sort?
include 'lib/included.php';
should have worked in the first place.
Go back to that, and then double-check spelling and include_path from
within the PHP script.
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