php include files in subdirectories

Hi, sorry new to programming.

I am using include files as so in every page i.e. /index.php

<?php include("/includes/simon.php"); ?>

at root level this include file works fine,

With any sub folder i.e. /subfolder/index.php it comes up with an error,

Warning: main(/includes/simon.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in etc etc \subfolder\index.php on line 15

I thought putting the inital forward slash "/" would work? any quick fix other than putting a "../" in all the subfolder files?

Many thanks for reading,

Simon

 

<?php include("includes/simon.php"); ?> will works...!, if you are in forder x, the includes folder must be with in x,

 

Another solution - absolute path via $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

<?php
define('APPLICATION_PATH', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
include( APPLICATION_PATH."/includes/simon.php");
?>

Don't use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] direct in the include(), some day it can make troubles.

 

^^ yah or include( dirname(__FILE__) . '/subdir/simon.php' );

 

All The Above should work and there are some more ways

 

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Depends on your php settings i believe, but you can even include php files on other sites.

Anyways, just do the full path to the file. Like

include "/home/username/public_html/folder/file.php";