Question

I have been using to get my files

<?php include 'example.html'; ?>

however how do you get them if they are in a subfolder: For example

pictures/example.html

Answer 1

The best practice for this is to define a ABSOLUTE_PATH constant that contains the directory that everything is located under. After that, you can simply copy and paste everything, because it is defining the ‘full’ path, which doesn’t change from directory to directory.

E.g

define("ABS_PATH", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);

or

define("ABS_PATH", dirname(__FILE__));
// This defines the path as the directory the file is in.
Then at any point you can simply do this to include a file

include(ABS_PATH . "/path/to/file");