Here is an interesting PHP problem that I have encountered I wondered if you have any effective solutions for it.

When I make my websites I like to use relative file paths, I have discovered today that when you include a page from an include page, the 2nd include is relative to the original page not the page including it.

Is there anyway to force the page to be relative to the calling page? Is there a variable that contains the path of the current php script, if there is then this could be used.

The magic "constant" $__FILE__ or __FILE__ contains the name of the current script file; if you prepend that onto your include file name, then you're making the include file relative to the current directory from whatever file you're currently in - be it the main script or somewhere lower down your included tree.


Here is the code that I?m using to generate the relative paths encase you want an actual PHP example:

Code:

$inc_path = __FILE__; $pos = strrpos($inc_path, "/"); $inc_path = substr($inc_path, 0, $pos) . "/"; $side = $inc_path . "side.inc"; $footer = $inc_path . "bottom.inc";

Many thanks - yes - that's the sort of thing

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