Hi PHP Experts,

I am writing a wrapper over some existing code and when I hoped that I
almost successfully completed it, I ran into the wall.

The wrapper file is in /var/www/sites/project/ as xyz.php and the file
includes some of the files from various paths.
Starting with
==============
// Importing Init.php for initializing the libraries
include_once("checkout/controller/Init.php");

and this Init.php in /var/www/sites/project/checkout/controller loads the
configuration file and code is as below.

============================================
if(file_exists("../common/config.ini")) {
$configData = parse_ini_file("../common/config.ini");
} else {
$configData = false;
}
if (!$configData) {
die("An error occurred while trying to get ".
"confidential config data. Please ensure that the ".
"pathname to this file in Init.php ".
"is correct.");
}
============================================

This config.php file is in /var/www/sites/project/common/ but there is some
messup in the path and its not setting to the right path as it must looking
for the file with include path set to /var/www/sites/project/ rather
/var/www/sites/project/checkout(it works if I keep the xyz.php file in
checkout folder. But I want this file to be in parent folder for various
other reasons and I cant figure out for nuts how to make this path thing
work.

Thanks,
Gowtham.N

On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:28 AM, GoWtHaM NaRiSiPaLli wrote:

> if(file_exists("../common/config.ini")) {
> $configData = parse_ini_file("../common/config.ini");
> } else {


Try changing above code so it reads

if(file_exists("common/config.ini")) {
$configData = parse_ini_file("common/config.ini");
} else {


As the xyz.php is in

/var/www/sites/project/ folder , and that is the starting path of
the script

so any script that needs to include
/var/www/sites/project/common/someFile.php
you need to specify relative path to '/var/www/sites/project/' which
is 'common/someFile.php'

this should work unless some of included files uses 'chdir' function
that changes current directory



Igor Jocic
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Bojan Tesanovic <btesanovic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:28 AM, GoWtHaM NaRiSiPaLli wrote:
>
>
> > if(file_exists("../common/config.ini")) {
> > $configData = parse_ini_file("../common/config.ini");
> > } else {
> >
>
>
> Try changing above code so it reads
>
>
> if(file_exists("common/config.ini")) {
> $configData = parse_ini_file("common/config.ini");
> } else {

In your primary file, you could also consider adding:

<?php
$base_path = dirname(__FILE__);
?>

And then, all includes from within that file would be included as such:

<?php
include($base_path.'/common/config.ini');
?>

Finally, on a different note, it may not be in your best interest
to keep a .ini extension on a configuration file, since this is
generally readable on the web.

--
</Daniel P. Brown>
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