Include files from parent or other directory

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I m needing to include a file from the parent directory  and other sub-directories  into a sub-directory  I ve done it before by simply using include   rootdirectory file php    but now it won t seem to work  Just wondering how I can do this  thanks  Here s my exact line  include   forums groups php     It s giving me this error the page still runs    Warning  include  forums groups php   function include   failed to open stream  No such file or directory in C  xampp htdocs forums blog posts php on line Warning  include    function include   Failed opening   forums groups php  for inclusion  include path    C  xampp php PEAR   in C  xampp htdocs forums blog posts php on line 3

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Depends on where the file you are trying to include from is located.

Example:

/rootdir/pages/file.php

/someotherDir/index.php

If you wrote the following in index.php: include('/rootdir/pages/file.php');it would error becuase it would try to get:

/someotherDir/rootdir/pages/file.php Which of course doesn't exist...

So you would have to use include('../rootdir/pages/file.php');

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include   and its relatives take filesystem paths  not web paths relative to the document root  To get the parent directory  use      include     somefilein parent php    include        somefile 2levels up php      If you begin with a    an absolute system file path will be used      Full absolute path    include   home username sites project include config php

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Here s something I wrote with that problem in mind     lt   function absolute include  file                                   file is the file url relative to the root of your site           Yourdomain com folder file inc would be passed as           folder file inc                         folder depth   substr count   SERVER  PHP SELF                     if  folder depth    false               folder depth   1            include str repeat         folder depth - 1     file                gt    hope it helps

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You may interest in using php s inbuilt function realpath    and passing a constant DIR   for example   TargetDirectory   realpath   DIR                Will take you 2 folder s back  String realpath      Returns canonicalized absolute pathname

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In laymans terms  and practicality  I see this as an old DOS trick thing  Whoa  What was that  DOS  Never heard of it        backs you out of the current sub-directory one time to a higher folder directory  and    enter typed twice backs you out too 2 higher parent folders  Keep adding the     enter  back to back and you will soon find yourself at the top level of the directory   As for Newbies to understand this better  consider this  in terms of the home PC or  C   drive  if you know what that means  rather than the web-servers host  root directory     While your at it  Consider your website existing somewhere on your home PC s hard drive  buried in some folder under the C   drive  Lastly  you can think of it as      is back one directory  and     is forward one directory folder   Now  If you are using the command prompt and are within the  myDocuments  folder of your PC you must back out of that folder to get closer to the higher directory  C    by typing the         If you wanted to access a file that is located in the widows directory while you are still in the myDocuments folder you would theoretically type    windows  in reality of DOS command prompt you would simply type     but I am setting you up for the web  The   redirects forward to another directory naturally   Using  myDocuments  lets pretend that you created 2 folders within it called  PHP1  and  PHP2   in such we now have the folders    C  myDocuments PHP1 C  myDocuments PHP2   In PHP1 you place a file called index php  and in PHP2 folder you placed a file called Found php  it now becomes    C  myDocuments PHP1 index php  C  myDocuments PHP2 found php   Inside the C  myDocuments PHP1 index php file you would need to edit and type something like    lt  php include      php2 found php    gt    The     is positional thus it considers your current file location  C  myDocuments PHP1 index php  and is a directive telling it to back out of PHP1 directory and enter or move forward into PHP2 directory to look for the Found php file  But does it read it  See my thoughts on trouble shooting below   Now  suppose you have 1 folder PHP1 and a sub-folder PHP2    C  myDocuments PHP1 PHP2   you would simply reference code   lt  php include   PHP2 found php     gt    as PHP2 exist as a sub-directory  below or within PHP1 directory   If the above does not work it may have something to do with access htaccess or permission to the directory or a typo  To enhance this   getting into trouble shooting   If the  found php  file has errors typo s within it  it will crash upon rendering at the error  such could be the reason  require require once  that you are experiencing the illusion that it is not changing directories or accessing the file   At last thought on the matter  you may need to instantiate your functions or references in order to use the included require  whatever  by creating a new variable or object such as    newObject   new nameobject  origianlThingy      Remember  just because you are including requiring something  sometimes means just that  it is included required to run  but it might need to be recreated to make it active or access it  New will surely re-create an instance of it  if it is readable  and make it available within the current document while preserving the original  However you should reference the newly created variable  newObject in all instances    if its global    To put this in perspective of some web host account  the web host is some whopping over sized hard-drive  like that on your PC  and your domain is nothing more than a folder they have assigned to you  Your folder is called the root  Inside that folder you can do anything you are allowed to do  your  one of many ways  to move between directories folders is to use the     however many times to back out of your current in reference to folder position you want to find       In my drunken state I realize that I know too much to be sane  and not   enough to be insane

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Had same issue earlier solved like this       include      includes config php      note     appearing before     includes config php

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I can t believe none of the answers pointed to the function dirname    available since PHP 4   Basically  it returns the full path for the referenced object  If you use a file as a reference  the function returns the full path of the file  If the referenced object is a folder  the function will return the parent folder of that folder  https   www php net manual en function dirname php For the current folder of the current file  use  current   dirname   FILE      For a parent folder of the current folder  simply use  parent   dirname   DIR

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the root directory  in PHP  is the directory of the file that is pinged  For example  I go to http   localhost directory to file index php  the root directory will be   dictory to file   since it s the one that you ve made a web request for

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If your server is not resolving the file from the parent directory using   include     somefilein parent php   try this  using the parent directory relative to the script    include   DIR          somefilein parent php

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Any path beginning with a slash will be an absolute path  From the root-folder of the server and not the root-folder of your document root  You can use     to go into the parent directory

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I took inspiration from frank and I added something like this in my  settings php  file that is then included in all pages when there is a link    settings php        folder depth   substr count   SERVER  PHP SELF                  slash          for   i 1  i lt    folder depth-2     i             slash   slash                 in my header php to be included in all pages   a href       php echo  slash  index php        seems it works both on local and hosted environment       NOTE  I am an absolute beginner

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