Sean, et al -- ...and then Sean Malloy said... % ... % % Its a bad example. However, it demonstrates that the relative path for each % include changed depending on what file was being included. % % PHP doesn't do that. Which is kind of annoying, but you get used to it.. But
Not only does one get used to it, but one might have preferred it that
way in the first place :-)
% I've come up with a work around.
%
% htdocs/index.php
% include('./system/core.php');
%
% htdocs/system/core.php
% define('CORE_PATH', str_replace('core.php', '', __FILE__));
% include(CORE_PATH.'logic/engine.php');
%
% htdocs/system/logic/engine.php
% include(CORE_PATH.'html/header.php');
I've come up with the following trick for files being tested in a
development environment.
In general, we have
$ cat index.php
<?php include("/home/sites/.php/devel/index.inc";)?>
$ cat other.php
<?php include("/home/sites/.php/devel/other.inc";)?>
where /devel might be missing (for production code) or /test (for a test
version) or anything else for some devel offshoot. There are various
files included within index.inc, and we of course want to get the right
copies.
So in index.inc and other.inc and any other files, I have a short
# this will let us figure out where we are and then always source the right include
stuff!
# it does not work with symlinks (__FILE__ reports the *target*)
# you must have a full env tree in your devel tree; we now look exclusively in
$DEVELDIR if set
if ( ereg("/home/sites/\.php/",__FILE__) ) # are we *somewhere* in our
usual master tree?
{ $DEVELDIR = preg_replace("|/.*/home/sites/\.php(.*)/[^/]*$|","\\1",__FILE__) ; }
# get the working dir
followed by
include("/home/sites/.php$DEVELDIR/includestuff.inc"); # include our various
files
where includestuff.inc looks like
# config settings and functions and the like
foreach ( array ( "config.php" , "functions.inc" ) as $incfile )
{
foreach
( array # (this could be quite long)
(
"/home/sites/.php$DEVELDIR", # host-wide dir
"$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]", # web-site-wide dir
getcwd() # this job
)
as $dir # what do we call it?
)
{
if ( file_exists ("$dir/$incfile") ) # is there a script file?
{ include ("$dir/$incfile") ; } # well, include it!
}
}
and, as you can see, gets the master config.php and functions.inc from
the proper devel tree (as well as then from the doc root and the script
dir), and any other includes down in the script point the same way like
include ("/home/sites/.php$DEVELDIR/index.table.inc"); # magic auto-table code
or so. It's hard-coded to our central directory (/home/sites/.php) but
you have to write these things down somewhere :-)
%
...
% Hope someone finds that useful
Same here :-)
HTH & HAND
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