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[tomt]

What is the proper way to do includes in php? In coldfusion I can include a file to a page like this:

Code:

<cfinclude template = "/include/com.cfm">

It wouldn't matter what directory the calling page is from, the code would go out to root directory of the domain go back up the tree to the directory include and get the include file. Simple one little line of code.

I can't get that to work in php. I did come up with the following code that does work on my test site. My test site is being hosted by godaddy. It doesn't work on my customer's site, which is on hostigator. The commented out line is what I had first, but I didn't see that variable on hostigator when I did a <? phpinfo(); ?>.

Code:

// $my_path = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_URL"];
$my_path = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
$pathArray = pathinfo_im($my_path);
$thisFileName = $pathArray[basename];
$directoryName = $pathArray[dirname];
if ($directoryName !=  "/") { $d = "../include";$a = $directoryName;} else { $d = "./include";$a = "home";}
include "$d/com.php";

Seems kind of convoluted compared to coldfusion. What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Tom

[vsloathe]

It should by default use the directory that the script is running from as your base directory. If it's not, you can get it by doing

Code:

<?php
$currentDirectory = getcwd();
?>

[tomt]

Thanks, that worked. What I am finding is the problems lie in the fact that godaddy (my hosting plan) uses version 5 of php while hostigator (my customer's) uses 4.4. A lot of the functions I found in the php online manual are only available with version 5. Says so at the top of the each function description page. Of course I didn't see that at the beginning of this project. So I am having to search for alternatives. I haven't given up, I am getting there.

Tom

[ratthing]

You may be able to get hostgator to use PHP 5 by adding this in your .htaccess file:

Code:

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php .phtml .phps .php5

My host uses PHP 4 by default, but by adding that I was able to use PHP 5.

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[Phaëton]

Is it different on every host?

that didnt work on mine i had to use this:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

[Kovacs]

Two easy ways to work around path madness are to define an 'includes' directory in php.ini, and also to make some kind of global path config file (in your includes dir).  Mine goes in includes/z_global_config.php and it just contains some simple path variables like:

$z_home_dir = '/home/kovacs';
$z_work_dir = '/home/kovacs/work';
$z_logs_dir = '/home/kovacs/logs';

It makes stuff easy to deploy because when you're uploading to the server, all you have to do is change your base paths in your config file and everything else should still work as is.  You can also put in other platform specific stuff, eg the path to your shell if you're a fan of using exec / passthru etc.

[perkiset]

I use Include sitefiles/*.inc so that below my Apache config dirs (the machines are all mine) I have individual files for each virtual host.

Then simply changing a site file from .inc to .site (for example) and cycling Apache, that site disappears. I also know that when I am dicking with a configuration I am only messing with that one particular site, rather than the whole configuration. Apache config includes rock.