PHP: Require path does not work for cron job?

Question

I have a cron job that needs to include this file:

require \'../includes/common.php\';

however, when it is run via the cron job (and not my

Answer 1

nono. you need to use absolute paths on crons.

what I do is:

// supouse your cron is on app/cron and your lib is on app/lib
$base = dirname(dirname(__FILE__)); // now $base contains "app"

include_once $base . '/lib/db.inc';

// move on