Question

I’m trying to use absolute paths for php includes.

Right now I’m trying to do it like this:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/sitefolder/apis/db.php');

but it doesn’t work since my site is not pointing to the root folder so I need to add a /sitefolder.

Is there a way to bypass this producing an absolute URL? Or is there a way to permit absolute URLs including?

Answer 1

Make a initialize.php.

And define your site root.

Include your includes file such as config.php, db.php.

And only include initialize.php to your files.

defined('DS') ? null : define('DS', '/');

defined('SITE_ROOT') ? null : define('SITE_ROOT',$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
defined('LIB_PATH') ? null  : define('LIB_PATH', SITE_ROOT.DS.'includes');

require_once(LIB_PATH.DS.'functions.php');
require_once(LIB_PATH.DS.'session.php');
require_once(LIB_PATH.DS.'database.php');