Question

I have a DB file content my DB info. the file db.php located on my mother’s folder [here apps folder]. Now, how can I include the db.php file anywhere on the project using base_url()? Here is my base url function:

function base_url() {
    return "http://localhost/apps";
}

I tried like this way but it does not work.

$link=base_url()."/"."db.php";      
include('$link');

Can anybody please help>

Thanks
riad

Answer 1

include('../db.php');

“../” will reapeat (eg ‘../../../db.php’) as depth of the file from which you are including

you can use $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] var as the base URL/PATH too