In php.ini, the include_path, you can specify

1) the fully qualified path to the includes folder

or

2) a path beginning with a ".", indicating that the path is relative to the page.


But what if I want to specify a path relative to the site root? Well, I could just put the fully path to the site root in my include_path, sure. But what if I have more than one web site on my server, and then have similarly named includes, e.g. "header.php"?

Thanks.

The option I use for your question is to use a global variable or constant defined with the path to the folder housing all your include documents, as well as a variable defining the path to your site root. This way as long as they are both defined correctly, you can always code to you $site_fs_dir/$include_dir for your include paths.

Josh Todd
Inquis Technologies, LLC
http://www.inquistech.com

I'd set it dynamically.

//Assuming a *nix style include_path
ini_set('include_path', '.:'.$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

I wonder if you could do this in Apache httpd.conf or .htaccess (after DOCUMENT_ROOT is set).
php_value include_path .:%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}

Not sure if that would work. I know that works for other things. Might be one of those values that must be quoted, not sure what syntax to use for concatenation, or even if there is any.

You could include the former runtime set as an appended script, if necessary, via the auto_append_file / prepend directives.

Regards,
Rich

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