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BeNice
BeNice

Reputation: 2295

File paths right by me and phpStorm but wrong in real world

phpStorm and I agreee this is crazy but "wrong" file paths work while "right" ones fail. Basic structure.

  |
  |------classes(directory)
  |         |
  |         |
  |         Person.php
  |
  |------include(directory)
  |         |
  |         |
  |         db-connect.inc.php
  |         autoloader.inc.php
  |         helper.inc.php
  |
  |
  |index.php
  |etc.php

In index I use: (1)

include_once "include/autoloader.inc.php";
include_once "include/db-connect.inc.php";
include_once "include/helper.inc.php";

and in Person.php I would expect to use: (2)

include_once "../include/autoloader.inc.php";
include_once "../include/db-connect.inc.php";
include_once "../include/helper.inc.php";

But that gets is:

"Warning: include_once(../include/autoloader.inc.php): failed to open stream:
No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\dummy\classes\Person.php on line 2"

Bizarely (3)

include_once "/../include/autoloader.inc.php";
include_once "/../include/db-connect.inc.php";
include_once "/../include/helper.inc.php";

works and even more bizarely so does (4)

include_once "include/autoloader.inc.php";
include_once "include/db-connect.inc.php";
include_once "include/helper.inc.php";

even though we are up one directory level!

phpStorm flags 3 and 4 as errors (says "Path include/autoloader.inc.php not found" and "Include expression is not resolved") while (2), which is what I thought was "right", gets a nice big green tick but fails at debug or if directly accessed via http://localhost etc.

I always struggle with these path things but how come phpStorm and I agree and the real world say nope!

Guess I will have to put $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] in all over the place (lot easier with Storm instead of longhand!) but still a pain!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 187

Answers (1)

Julio Soares
Julio Soares

Reputation: 1190

This is correct behaviour.

The page you loaded is in /

There you included a file from /includes

And now the file you have included is part of the page in /

So all includes in the included file are seen as relatives from / not from /includes

and so on...

Upvotes: 2

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