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
are you running apache on windows and linux?

if so, setup a .htaccess file that has a line in it that modifies the php include path

place that .htaccess at your web root and you won't have to play with paths, you would call
require_once 'includes/class.announcement.php'; instead

Fix your include paths and you wont have to worry if the system will have what it should in the
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].

--
Jim Lucas

"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."

Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare