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the_peacock
the_peacock

Reputation: 399

Base Url PHP includes on WAMP

I am building a PHP mySQL site locally with WAMP.

in my WAMP www directory i have made subfolders for each website I am making. eg:

WAMP\www\site1\index.php
WAMP\www\site2\index.php
WAMP\www\site3\index.php
etc

my DB connection is stored in: 

site1/connections/open.php

my PHP scripts are stored under: 

site1/php/filename.php

when i am running a script i need to include the open.php connection. the only way i can get this to work is by using:

include '../connections/open.php';  // this goes at the top of the PHP script

I know that if i use this and then move to remote servers or move some directories around I will have problems accessing this file. I therefore want the path to be relative to the basedir or baseurl(/site1/).

I understand that when you use an include it is looking for a dir and not an url so I cant use anything like;

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

How do you go about sorting this out? Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1554

Answers (2)

Abdullah Ahmed
Abdullah Ahmed

Reputation: 73

Yes you are right on that URL part

I understand that when you use an include it is looking for a dir and not an url so I cant use anything like;

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

How do you go about sorting this out? Thanks

You should try like this

$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/myFolder/"

Or try this 

getcwd()."/myFolder/"

But there is a difference between both of them [Try Googling]

Upvotes: 1

土豆丫
土豆丫

Reputation: 7175

I think when you move to remote servers or move some directories around you will have no problems,because you are using relative path. I think you should not use "$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']" and I think you should know what they mean!

Upvotes: 0

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