tbt wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm a newbie to php and I'm using
>
> require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/class.announcement.php");
>
> to import pages in php. This works fine on a windows environment. However
> when I move this application to a linux environment the files dont get
> imported properly. This is because in a windows environment
> $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returns c:/xampp/htdocs etc.
> but in a linux environment returns /home/servers etc.
>
> How can this be rectified so that the path is properly picked up in a linux
> environment

Don't rely on document root.

I'm surprised it worked on windows, you were lucky - 90% of the time
it's not there or not correct anyway.

If it's in the same directory as the current file, do:

require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/includes/class.announcement.php');

__FILE__ is a built in constant that tells you the full path to the
current file.

dirname() takes the filename out of that and gives you just the current
directory (see http://www.php.net/dirname ).

Then add the rest of the on the end.

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