I dunno whose answer you were thinking of...
include_path('.:/var/www/html');
PHP will find it in /var/www/html
My answer was to set include_path correctly, and NOT attempt to hack
up some hard-coded mess in your PHP source.
On Thu, October 5, 2006 4:29 pm, Deckard wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thank you so much for your answer.
>
> dbInsert.php is in /var/www/html/classes while config.inc.php is in
> /var/www/html
>
> With your code, the file is always searched in /var/www/html/classes
> and
> not in /var/www/html
>
> Warm Regards,
> Deckard
>
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>> On Thu, October 5, 2006 2:34 am, John Wells wrote:
>>> [code]
>>> // Consider *where* you create this
>>> // Define it as a constant if you'd like...
>>> define('BASE_PATH', dirname(__FILE__));
>>>
>>> // Now build the path, like (assuming it was created
>>> // in a file located at /var/www/html
>>> include_once(BASE_PATH . '/config.inc.php');
>>> [/code]
>>
>> Gah!
>>
>> Now you've made it even HARDER to move the include files out of the
>> web tree, or wherever is more convenient and safer.
>>
>> include_path is a much more powerful and flexible construct which
>> will
>> save you an inordinate amount of trouble if you just figure out how
>> it
>> works and use it...
>>
>
>
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