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mick_smick
mick_smick

Reputation: 65

Requiring files from the root directory

Is it possible to require files (using php require) from the directory where my website is placed? For example, my website is in the directory mywebsite which is in the root directory. There is another directory there. Can I require files from this another directory?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2405

Answers (3)

David V.
David V.

Reputation: 5708

I have been using

require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/myfile.php';

Upvotes: 1

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 1527

It should be no problem to require from an arbitrary existing and readable directory.

Image you have:

/

--folder1

--folder2

and in folder1 is your index.php and in folder2 is your to_require.php

Then you could write:

require('../folder2/to_require.php')

That's because you can go up in your directory tree with ..

Upvotes: 0

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 163622

Sure, you can require files from anywhere that has the appropriate permissions.

This requires the file from the current directory (NOT always where the current PHP script is, so be careful of that):

require("whatever.php");

This will require whatever.php from somefolder which is in the current directory.

require("somefolder/whatever.php");

Finally, you can give an absolute path like this:

require("/var/www/includes/whatever.php");

Require from parent directory:

require("../includes/watherver.php");

It doesn't matter really where you get it from, provided you have the permissions set correctly, and PHP is configured in such a way to allow you to do so.

Upvotes: 2

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