Question

Anyone know if there is a “best” or industry standard for pointing/ calling a file? Lets say that there are folders and subfolders involved also. I’ve found some different ways to go around doing it. Just looking for some pointers ~.^ and opinions.

Windows vs Linux (even though I’m using Linux, just for others that come across this post)

    (dirname(__FILE__))
    BASE_PATH
    $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]
    $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

Answer 1

I personally use this:

require_once __DIR__ . '/../../my/path/to/file.php';

That way it is always correct regardless of $_SERVER, OS, or include paths.