Question

Good evening. I found a few questions that seemed to ask the same thing I am asking, but none of the answers seems to work for me. Basically, I have a few generic PHP files (mostly classes, but some are not) that I want to be usuable by multiple PHP sites.

Here is an example of my folder structure:

Site A Root
C:\Personal\WebSites\SiteA

Site B Root
C:\Personal\WebSites\SiteB

Shared Code
C:\Personal\WebSites\Shared

From Site A I tried using include(“../Shared/foo.php”) to reach the files, but this did not work. I have a feeling this is due to the folder being beyond the site root folder of SiteA. Is there a way to simply include files from the Shared directory? I can’t imagine this is an uncommon practice, but I just can’t figure it out.

BTW, I am using PHP 5.2.14 through IIS (via FastCGI) on Windows 7 if that matters. Eventually, I will be moving these sites to Linux/Apache hosting, so I would prefer any solution to work with either.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

In your php.ini you can add directories to the include_path, and them include files from then.

"C:\Personal\Websites\Shared;"

If you append a string like that to the already existing include_path you can do include 'specialDir\Class.php' wherespecialDiris a directory inShared`.