Relative include files

Question

I have a file

workers/activity/bulk_action.php which includes a file

include(\'../../classes/aclass.php\');

Inside aclass.php it d

Answer 1

Files are included based on the file path given or, if none is given, the include_path specified. If the file isn't found in the include_path, include() will finally check in the calling script's own directory and the current working directory before failing.

You can use dirname(__FILE__) to get a path to the directory where the currently executed script resides:

include(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/tcpdf/config/lang/eng.php');

(since PHP 5.3, you can use __DIR__)

Or, define a constant in the first file that points to the root directory and use it in your includes.