On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:42 -0400, Dan Shirah wrote:
> Okay, I'm stumped!!!
> 
> I have all of my database connection info in a file: connection.php
> This info is stored in a folder: Connections
> Example of connection.php:
> <?php
> $connection = mssql_pconnect('SERVER','user','password') or die ('server
> connection failed');
> $database = mssql_select_db("my_database", $connection) or die ('DB
> selection failed');
> ?>
> 
> I am trying to include the connection.php file in all of my pages so I don't
> have to hard code the info into every page.
> But, my data never returns because the include apparently is not working.
> If I remove the include and hard code the info, it works.
> 
> Here is an example of the include statement I am using on my pages.
> 
> <?php include '../../Connections/connection.php'; ?>
> 
> The Connections folder is two level above my form page.  Example file
> structure below.
> 
> ROOT
>     Connections
>         connection.php
>     Submit
>         Current_Forms
>              My_Form.php
> 
> I've tried ../../../Connections/connection.php,
> ../../Connections/connection.php, ../Connections/connection.php but nothing
> works.

Yeah, the current path is your document root... so use the following:

<?php include 'Connections/connection.php'; ?>

Cheers,
Rob.
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