Include not working?

[DarkxPunk]

Hi there,

 

I am new to PHP, but have been playing with include for awhile. Today I can't get it to work the normal way I have always worked with it, here is my issue:

 

$contentHome = '../content/public/home.php';switch (true){case $currentSite == "www.domain.tdl" and $currentPage == "home.php":case $currentSite == "domain.tdl" and $currentPage == "home.php":include_once($contentHome);$welcome = $welcome;break;

 

This gives me an error saying the dir does not exist… Now doing a lot of searching I found this solution:

 

define('ROOT', __DIR__.'/');$contentHome = ROOT.'../content/public/home.php';switch (true){case $currentSite == "www.domain.tdl" and $currentPage == "home.php":case $currentSite == "domain.tdl" and $currentPage == "home.php":include_once($contentHome);$welcome = $welcome;break;

 

It works perfect using this code. I understand why, but what I don't understand is why the first example of code does not work!?

 

Thanks for any input.

Michael

 

[justsomeguy]

In general both of those should work. Maybe PHP's working directory is set to something else. You can check what the working directory is with this:http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getcwd.phpYou can also change it:http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chdir.phpchdir(__DIR__);

[DarkxPunk]

I checked the the working dir is correct, yet it still does not work the first example. Any other ideas?

[thescientist]

why are you using spoiler tags to show code?

[DarkxPunk]

why are you using spoiler tags to show code?

 

You will notice I am using the proper code tags inside the spoiler tags… Now the reason…well I think it looks cleaner. Just me.

[justsomeguy]

The only reason one would work and one would not is if they point to different files. Use realpath to see what the full path is:http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.phpecho realpath('../content/public/home.php');echo realpath(ROOT.'../content/public/home.php);