Thanks! I'll give that a shot.
--Travis
On Sep 19, 2012, at 6:46 PM, Tristan Olive wrote:
> On Wed 19 Sep 2012 07:13:21 PM EDT, David Anderson wrote:
>>
>> It may be possible to do this by chdir()ing into html/user
>> from the calling page.
>> -- David
>>
>> On 18-Sep-2012 4:57 PM, Travis Desell wrote:
>>>
>>> I was wondering if there was any way to get the paths in the BOINC
>>> php code
>>> to use absolute paths so it can be easily accessed from other webpages
>>> developed for a project that might not reside in the projects directory
>>> hierarchy.
>>>
>>> It's kind of a mess trying to include anything from there since all
>>> the paths
>>> are relative and php doesn't know how to find those files. I think
>>> it's as
>>> simple as adding (there may be a better way to do this):
>>>
>>> require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/<whatever>");
>>>
>>> to the require statements. It's in some of them, but it would be great if
>>> this was there uniformly over all the php.
>
> Travis, what David suggests should work for you. I've used the following
> wrapper for including BOINC libraries:
>
> function require_boinc($libraries) {
> $working_dir = getcwd();
> chdir('./' . drupal_get_path('module', 'boincuser') .
> '/includes/boinclib');
> if (!is_array($libraries)) {
> $libraries = array($libraries);
> }
> foreach ($libraries as $library) {
> require_once("{$library}.inc");
> }
> chdir($working_dir);
> }
>
>
> Granted, this is for including code in html/inc, which may or may not be
> your intent, but it works even by chdir() to a symlink to the html/inc
> directory.
>
> P.S. Another issue I ran into with this--after the includes were
> working--was with the scope of global variables. In a number of places,
> variables were not "global enough" to be accessed from my code, so I had
> to make explicit global declarations in the BOINC libraries in order to
> be able to find them.
>
> --
> Tristan Olive
>
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