PHP: Include inside include with different root

Question

So I have:

Page A - /WWW/index.php

Page B - /WWW/folder/index.php

Page C - /WWW/assets/functions.php

I want to be able to use the same line of code to include Page C on Page A and Page B.

Right now for Page A: include "/assets/functions.php";

Page B: include "../assets/functions.php";

The "../" is what bugs me. Depending on how many times the file is nested in folder I have to add a "../"

I tried: include dirname(__FILE__) . "/assets/functions.php";

But it works on Page A and not Page B.

Also in the function.php I want to be able to include other PHP files.

Aelios · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-11 08:44:48Z

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require_once($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]. "/assets/functions.php");

require_once is used to include your file once.

$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] is used to get your root directory.

answered Jul 11, 2012 at 8:44

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2 Comments

Tyler Hughes Over a year ago

Errors are not displayed by default. I'm checking by have a variable on function.php and on both index.php and /folder/index.php I'm echoing it and neither is echoing.

Tyler Hughes Over a year ago

Sorry, I should have had error reporting on in the first place. I would have figured it out without needing to ask this. I'm building a new site on my site under /new/ and I forgot to add that part before assets. I assumed it already new that as the root too.

R00We · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-11 08:46:44Z

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try it

require rtrim(dirname(__FILE__), '/\\') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'my_file.php';

answered Jul 11, 2012 at 8:46

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