Question

I’m trying to include a file in a page. The file is located in a folder called phpThumb which is placed inside my wordpress theme directory.
This is how I tried to include the file”

<?php require_once(get_bloginfo('template_url')."/phpThumb/phpThumb.config.php"); ?>

For some reason, this doesn’t work.
I did check and get_bloginfo() returns a value and does not echo a value.
I triple checked the code for validity and it’s all fine IMO…

What could possibly be wrong?

P.S ; It worked using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] but the output of it is dependent on the current page (correct me if I’m wrong) so it’s not as efficient for me.

Answer 1

require_once expects a file in a directory not a url.

Replace get_bloginfo('template_url') with the WordPress function get_template_directory().

<?php require_once(get_template_directory()."/phpThumb/phpThumb.config.php"); ?>