Include php files when they are in different folders

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Most of my website is in my root directory  And In that directory there is  css    functions    images  folder  Everything works fine when I include php files within index php or any other root file  It includes it fine and executes it fine   But problem occurres when I made folder  blog   So this is totally new and separate root folder with CMS and its own  root  files  And I try to include css from main root directory or some php files from  functions  folder in main root directory  Everything breaks down  I know I have to include it as    functions myfile com  But this files includes some other files so it just wont work properly and won t be able to include other files properly   Is there any idea how to fix this problem

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None of the above answers fixed this issue for me  I did it as following  Laravel with Ubuntu server     lt  php       footerFile     var www website main resources views emails elements emailfooter blade php        include  footerFile     gt

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If I understand you correctly  You have two folders  one houses your php script that you want to include into a file that is in another folder   If this is the case  you just have to follow the trail the right way  Let s assume your folders are set up like this   root     includes         php scripts             script php     blog         content             index php   If this is the proposed folder structure  and you are trying to include the  Script php  file into your  index php  folder  you need to include it this way   include           includes php scripts script php      The way I do it is visual   I put my mouse pointer on the index php  looking at the file structure   then every time I go UP a folder  I type another        Then you have to make sure you go UP the folder structure ABOVE the folders that you want to start going DOWN into   After that  it s just normal folder hierarchy

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You can get to the root from within each site using   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT    For testing ONLY you can echo out the path to make sure it s working  if you do it the right way  You NEVER want to show the local server paths for things like includes and requires   Site 1  echo   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT      should be   main web folder      Includes under site one would be at   echo   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     includes       should be   main web folder includes      Site 2  echo   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT      should be   main web folder blog      The actual code to access includes from site1 inside of site2 you would say   include   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT        includes file from site 1 php      It will only use the relative path of the file executing the query if you try to access it by excluding the document root and the root slash       not as fool-proof or non-platform specific   include     includes file from site 1 php      Included paths have no place in code on the front end  live  of the site anywhere  and should be secured and used in production environments only   Additionally for URLs on the site itself you can make them relative to the domain  Browsers will automatically fill in the rest because they know which page they are looking at  So instead of    lt a href  http   www   domain  name  here   com contact   gt Contact lt  a gt    You should use    lt a href   contact   gt Contact lt  a gt    For good SEO you ll want to make sure that the URLs for the blog do not exist in the other domain  otherwise it may be marked as a duplicate site  With that being said you might also want to add a line to your robots txt file for ONLY site1   User-agent    Disallow   blog    Other possibilities   Look up your IP address and include this snippet of code   function is dev        use the external IP from Google      If you re hosting locally it s 127 0 01 unless you ve changed it     ip address  xxx xxx xxx xxx      if    SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     ip address        return true      else        return false          if is dev         echo   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT               Remember if your ISP changes your IP  as in you have a DCHP Dynamic IP  you ll need to change the IP in that file to see the results  I would put that file in an include  then require it on pages for debugging   If you re okay with modern methods like using the browser console log you could do this instead and view it in the browser s debugging interface   if is dev         echo   lt script gt   PHP EOL      echo  console log      SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT         PHP EOL      echo   lt  script gt   PHP EOL

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Try to never use relative paths  Use a generic include where you assign the DocumentRoot server variable to a global variable  and construct absolute paths from there  Alternatively  for larger projects  consider implementing a PSR-0 SPL autoloader

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