Question

I’m new to PHP. I’m developing a new PHP website. My website folder structure is as below,

-SystemRoot
    +Code
    +Data_Access
    -Public_HTML
        +css
        +js
        +Templates
    -resources
        config.php

There I have a config file in resources directory, I need to include config.php in most of other php pages in various directories. So I have to specify the path to config file differently in different pages like,

include_once '../resources/config.php';
include_once '../../resources/config.php';

Is there a way to overcome this & use a common (relative) path to config.php that can be used in eny folder path within the project?

What is the common/best practice to include classes in php projects?

Answer 1

You could route everything to your index.php

then define some constant’s. Evrything routed to index.php will have access to these then.

define('SELF', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));

define('RESOURCES', SELF . 'resources/');