Including files using relative paths with PHP?

Question

When developing my website I called all the includes in my php files by calling one single file called includes.

The code of this file looked somethig like this: (I

Answer 1

First off: I'd drop the DS, it's BS (ehe). Windows support both C:/wamp/www and C:\wamp\www :-) Even C:\wamp\www/project is fine.

If includes.php is located in, say lib/includes.php (relative to your project root), then do this:

define('SITE_ROOT', realpath('../'));

That will dynamically set SITE_ROOT.