In PHP MySQL Website Programming (can't find this listed under Wrox any more) page 28 gives an include_path value to enter into an .htaccess file to alter the path list for php so that it searches a library on the site.
I have amended the string to include my (virtual) site, as best as I can tell, but the although the ISP allows .htaccess (and gives, forexample, instructions on how to use it to interpret php files using php3 rahter than php4), they cannot tell me the proper syntax for the directive.
Can anyone point me to some documentation please ?:(

You're crossing boundaries there... you need to add PHP configuration directives to an .htaccess file, which is an apache configuration file. For this to work, PHP _must_ be installed as an apache module, and the main apache .conf file (httpd.conf) must allow .htaccess files to override the existing PHP configuration, whether that configuration exists elsewhere in httpd.conf or in php.ini (AllowOverride Options).

That said, all you need is to add your PHP configuration items in your htaccess file just as you would in httpd.conf.

Look at the Configuration section of the PHP manual online:

  http://www.php.net/configuration.changes

Configuration values are specified as "phpvalue". Configuration flags (on/off) are specified as "phpflag".

So the configuration value you want to change is "inlcude_path", right?


Couldn't be easier, no?


Take care,

Nik
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