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Marnix Bouhuis
Marnix Bouhuis

Reputation: 450

Including file from class

I have the following file structure:

www
|-- MyLibrary
|    |-- Example.class.php 
|    +-- someDirectory
|         +-- somefile.php
|-- other_file.php
+-- another_file.php

I want to include a file from a class:

<?php
    class Example {
        public function test(){
            include "someDirectory/somefile.php";
        }
    }
?>

It will throw an error because it's including from an other file/directory than the class. Since I'm writing a library I don't known the directory where the files will be in and the path from the file creating the instance and 'somefile.php'.

So my question is: Is there a way to include 'somefile.php' from 'Example.class.php'?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (2)

Matthijs
Matthijs

Reputation: 1142

You can use the __DIR__ constant in PHP

The directory of the file. If used inside an include, the directory of the included file is returned. This is equivalent to dirname(__FILE__). This directory name does not have a trailing slash unless it is the root directory.

(https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php)

So that will be:

<?php
    class Example {
        public function test(){
            include __DIR__."/../someDirectory/somefile.php";
        }
    }
?>

With this you use the relative path to the file.

Upvotes: 1

Blaatpraat
Blaatpraat

Reputation: 2839

You can get the current path that the file is in.

In the structure you're working, you can rewrite the Example class to this:

<?php
    class Example {
        public function test(){
            include __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "someDirectory/somefile.php";
        }
    }
?>

The __DIR__ constant will give you the current folder.

Upvotes: 0

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