Re: including a file in a higher-level directory

  • From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:25:32 -0400

I doubt it. I should have said that the php directory is inside my
site directory (c:\bn\website).

On 7/10/11, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder if this is a security related issue, where PHP is not allowing
> use of files outside the root level of the particular web application space.
>
> Jamal
>
> On 7/10/2011 8:59 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
>> I had not. I have since moved everything into one directory, just so I
>> could keep working on the files, but I will see what an absolute path
>> does instead of a relative one.
>>
>> On 7/10/11, Jared Wright<wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> Your syntax is correct. Have you tried providing an absolute path, just
>>> to ensure that works? Then if it does you can narrow down why the
>>> relative path isn't.
>>> On 7/9/2011 10:03 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> A quick php question. In a case where you want to use include() or
>>>> include_once() to include a file in a higher-level directory, how do
>>>> you do it? For instance, if the main site directory holds a file
>>>> called globals.php, and a file in the scripts folder (which itself is
>>>> inside the main directory) wants to include globals.php, what is the
>>>> syntax? I thought it would be:
>>>> include("../globals.php");
>>>> to go up a level (..) and then select globals.php from that higher
>>>> level. This, however, is not working. This is on the latest version of
>>>> WAMP. Thanks, and I hope I made this clear enough.
>>>>
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