Question

I got a problem about including a included file in PHP.

Project

• functions(folder) has a.php
• xml(folder) has b.xml
• index.php

This is my project structure(sorry about that, I can’t post images).
I try to use “index.php” to include “a.php” while “a.php” is using “b.xml“

this is what i did on XAMPP and it works perfectly:

in index.php I wrote: include ‘functions/a.php’;

in a.php I wrote: $xml->load(‘xml/b.xml’);

However if I copy these to my Uni’s apache server, it can’t open this b.xml.
This is not permission because when i change to absolute path it works…

Thank you guys in advance:-)

Answer 1

in a.php you should refer to ../xml/b.xml if you use include
thing is, it depeneds on when $xml->load() is defined. if it’s your own code then put the path relative to the definition. otherwise “../xml/b.xml” should work.

you can always to $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’], but i myself like defining directories as constants (with absolute path) and using them around the project.

define('DIR_ROOT', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/');
define('DIR_FUNCTIONS', DIR_ROOT . 'functions/');
define('DIR_XML', DIR_ROOT . 'xml/');