Question

ive got an global include/header.php file like:

UPDATE
folder structure :

 /
   include/
            header.php
            functions.php

   content/
            show.php

include/header.php

<?php
  require_once('functions.php');
  $settings = blaa;
     ....
?>

include/functions.php

<?php
    function hello()
    {
      echo "hello world";
    }
?>

and now a content file like content/show.php

content/show.php

<?php
  require_once('../include/header.php');

  echo "show page want to say: ";
  hello();
?>

and now if i look in the apache error_log call to undefined function in content/show.php on line...

i cannot find out why :-/

Greetings

Answer 1

If you tweak your header.php code to this:

<?php

    define('INCDIR', str_replace('\\', '/', dirname(__FILE__)));
    require_once(INCDIR . '/functions.php');

It wont matter where you include it from it will constantly find the right path to the include folder