require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/Event_Logger.php");
global $Event_Logger;
$Event_Logger = new EventLogger();
Doing this displays a blank page and does not continue loading the page
The file on my server is located at public_html/Event_Logger.php
So I know I am doing this wrong $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returns something I wasnt expecting so I am asking how do I get the top level of my site basically the folder public_html
You can't (and shouldn't) include a file using URLs. You should use the path to the file locally, on the same server. If the plugin you're building lives on technologyforthefuture.org, then you can require it from the root path. If you're trying to include the file from an external website, that's not possible.
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You see how facebook works, like if my profile is
www.facebook.com/myusername
then there is a specific index.php file and other lots of files that open when I open facebook.com/myusername.
Now I believe it is highly unlikely that Facebook copied the same files into each and every user's username directory.
How else would it work?
I'll be having many different users using the same application, i.e. the same set of files with minor changes in one or two files. Do I necessarily have to copy all the files into all the user directories each time?
I tried putting an index.php file in the subdirectory that contains this code:
<?php
require '../index.php';
?>
Now even though that runs the ../index.php file inside the subdirectory, but when the ../index.php file redirects to say another file named 'otherfile.php', then it gives a 404 not found error, because 'otherfile.php' is not present in the subdirectory, it is present in the parent directory.
How do I solve this problem?
I have one root folder called GASS where I put all my php files and other related folders (templates,images,js,fonts,css)inside. When i try to run my project in localhost, http://localhost/GASS/alarm_A16GSM.php everything went smoothly. I wanted to change the URL to be more specific, http://localhost/GASS/alarmsystem/16zone/A16/overview.php thus i rename the php file and put it inside folders.
GASS
alarm-system
16-zone
A16
overview
However when i try to run the new URL,the page shows error.This is the error message:
Warning: include(templates/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in .....
Code for the first URL where the page load successfully.
<div class="overview"><a href="alarm_A16GSM.php" id="overview-selected"><span>
Code for the new URL where the page shows error.
<a href="alarm-system/16-zone/A16/overview.php" id="overview-selected">
It seems like i need to configure something which i do not know what it is.
How am i going to load the page successfully using the new URL? How am i going to traverse four levels up to the root directory so that the page load successfully? Why i cannot directly call the php file using the(alarm-system/16-zone/A16/overview.php) path?
p/s: sorry for my bad English.
It looks like there is a line in your Php file, probably like
include 'templates/header.php';
Include can't find the file using that relative path, because you moved the calling file.
Probably you could change that to
include '../../../../templates/header.php';
To get back down to the GASS folder that apparently has a folder called 'templates' with a file 'header.php' that is required.
An absolute path would be good, instead but it refers to the filesystem path, not webserver path - so you'd need to know your web root folder name on the server.
Copying all the folders (templates,images,js,fonts,css) to the folder overview will solve the issue. Now there is no template file on the folder 'overview' so header.php is failed to load. Another option is create a file save all the included file path and call this file.
Most of my website is in my root directory. And In that directory there is "css", "functions", "images" folder. Everything works fine when I include php files within index.php or any other root file. It includes it fine and executes it fine.
But problem occurres when I made folder "blog". So this is totally new and separate root folder with CMS and its own "root" files. And I try to include css from main root directory or some php files from "functions" folder in main root directory, Everything breaks down. I know I have to include it as ../functions/myfile.com. But this files includes some other files so it just wont work properly and won't be able to include other files properly.
Is there any idea how to fix this problem?
You can get to the root from within each site using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. For testing ONLY you can echo out the path to make sure it's working, if you do it the right way. You NEVER want to show the local server paths for things like includes and requires.
Site 1
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; //should be '/main_web_folder/';
Includes under site one would be at:
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/'; // should be '/main_web_folder/includes/';
Site 2
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; //should be '/main_web_folder/blog/';
The actual code to access includes from site1 inside of site2 you would say:
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/../includes/file_from_site_1.php');
It will only use the relative path of the file executing the query if you try to access it by excluding the document root and the root slash:
//(not as fool-proof or non-platform specific)
include('../includes/file_from_site_1.php');
Included paths have no place in code on the front end (live) of the site anywhere, and should be secured and used in production environments only.
Additionally for URLs on the site itself you can make them relative to the domain. Browsers will automatically fill in the rest because they know which page they are looking at. So instead of:
<a href='http://www.__domain__name__here__.com/contact/'>Contact</a>
You should use:
<a href='/contact/'>Contact</a>
For good SEO you'll want to make sure that the URLs for the blog do not exist in the other domain, otherwise it may be marked as a duplicate site. With that being said you might also want to add a line to your robots.txt file for ONLY site1:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/
Other possibilities:
Look up your IP address and include this snippet of code:
function is_dev(){
//use the external IP from Google.
//If you're hosting locally it's 127.0.01 unless you've changed it.
$ip_address='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx';
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']==$ip_address){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
if(is_dev()){
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
}
Remember if your ISP changes your IP, as in you have a DCHP Dynamic IP, you'll need to change the IP in that file to see the results. I would put that file in an include, then require it on pages for debugging.
If you're okay with modern methods like using the browser console log you could do this instead and view it in the browser's debugging interface:
if(is_dev()){
echo "<script>".PHP_EOL;
echo "console.log('".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."');".PHP_EOL;
echo "</script>".PHP_EOL;
}
If I understand you correctly, You have two folders, one houses your php script that you want to include into a file that is in another folder?
If this is the case, you just have to follow the trail the right way.
Let's assume your folders are set up like this:
root
includes
php_scripts
script.php
blog
content
index.php
If this is the proposed folder structure, and you are trying to include the "Script.php" file into your "index.php" folder, you need to include it this way:
include("../../../includes/php_scripts/script.php");
The way I do it is visual. I put my mouse pointer on the index.php (looking at the file structure), then every time I go UP a folder, I type another "../" Then you have to make sure you go UP the folder structure ABOVE the folders that you want to start going DOWN into. After that, it's just normal folder hierarchy.
i had the same issue and found a code on https://css-tricks.com/php-include-from-root/ that fixed it
<?php
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$path .= "/common/header.php";
include_once($path);
?>
None of the above answers fixed this issue for me.
I did it as following (Laravel with Ubuntu server):
<?php
$footerFile = '/var/www/website/main/resources/views/emails/elements/emailfooter.blade.php';
include($footerFile);
?>
Try to never use relative paths. Use a generic include where you assign the DocumentRoot server variable to a global variable, and construct absolute paths from there. Alternatively, for larger projects, consider implementing a PSR-0 SPL autoloader.
I would like to include cars.php file to index.php theme; the cars.php file is script, which loads data from the server and works as booking system, when I am trying to connect as usual way include('/.cars.php');, and check the source code in browser, its there, but no forms appear.
Could be the problem with wordpress engine itself?
I think you have a typo include('/.cars.php'); is likely include('./cars.php');
What you have now would look in the root directory for a file called .cars.php
Am trying to use a config file for a database and rating script but the problem is the config file is in this directory :
website.com/include/config.php aka websitename/include/config.php
The rating script needs the config and is accessed like this:
include_once("config.php");
I want the config to be in:
"/files/website/"
A directory level up from the website root folder.
I have been trying with:
"../files/website/" and other variations but can not figure out how to link them.
I have managed to put one config file and access it, but with this ajax rating script the only way for it to work is to have the config in the /include/ folder next to:
rating_process.php - has this link : include("inc/config.php");
rating_functions.php - has this link : include_once("config.php");
rating_total_functions.php - has this link : include("inc/config.php");
Hope i've explained myself here
Right, looking at my hosting now:
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; outputs this: /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/webbysite
My index file is located at: /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/webbysite/index.php
The included rating script is located in: /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/webbysite/include/
I want the config to be in /foldy/homepages/11/username/htdocs/secretfiles/config.php
Am trying to some how go out of: webbysite folder and then into secretfiles (sibling folders)
I have tried adding ../ and so on, but am missing something obviously :(
Try
$configLocation = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'../files/website/config.php';
include_once($configLocation)
but the problem is the config file is in this directory
it is not a problem at all.
just keep it as is.
Concerning your particular problem, your problem is that you don't know where you want to put your file. /files/website/ is not likely a right path and it is apparently not one level high from webroot.
So, first of all make your mind about the right path to the directory and it's relative position to the web root
if you are concerned about security ( because your config file contains the db details ) i would place the db config file outside the site root folder and then require_once('../../dbConfig.php') from the script that's creating xml or json for your ajax
more exactly ...
your site folder might be here: /var/www/html
set a virtual host (done differently on Linux and Windows) and point your domain to a sub folder inside /html so that the new path to the site root is /var/www/html/site.
then place your config file in /var/www/html and call it from your scripts inside your /site folder using require_once('../dbConfig.php)`.
your db details are outside the site folder