PHP include relative path

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I have file   root update test php  There s also a file   root connect php  This file has a line   include     config php     In  root update test php  There s the code  set include path     root    include  connect php     When I run  root update test php  it finds connect php  but fails to find config php  giving me   PHP Warning   include    config php   failed to open stream  No such file or directory in  root connect php on line 2 PHP Warning   include    Failed opening     config php  for inclusion  include path     root     This is confusing to me because the warnings make it seem like I m doing everything correctly - the include path is  root  and it s looking for file    config php   config php   which exists  Can someone clear this up for me  Note that using absolute paths is not an option for me  due to deploying to a production server that I have no access to   Ubuntu Apache

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function relativepath  to        a explode       SERVER  PHP SELF           index  array search   to   a        str          for   i   0   i  lt  count  a - index-2   i               str                    return  str          Here is the best solution i made about that  you just need to specify at which level you want to stop  but the problem is that you have to use this folder name one time

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While I appreciate you believe absolute paths is not an option  it is a better option than relative paths and updating the PHP include path   Use absolute paths with an constant you can set based on environment   if  is production          define  ROOT PATH     some production path      else       define  ROOT PATH     root       include ROOT PATH     connect php     As commented  ROOT PATH could also be derived from the current path    SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT    etc

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You could always include it using   DIR     include dirname   DIR      config php        DIR   is a  magical constant  and returns the directory of the current file without the trailing slash  It s actually an absolute path  you just have to concatenate the file name to   DIR    In this case  as we need to ascend a directory we use PHP s dirname which ascends the file tree  and from here we can access config php   You could set the root path in this method too   define  ROOT PATH   dirname   DIR              in test php would set your root to be at the  root  level   include ROOT PATH  config php      Should then work to include the config file from where you want

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