I have my main navigational php files in the root directory which I'm including in other pages that are buried deep within other directories. I thought adding a slash to the file name like "/nav.php" meant to look for the file in the root directory, but this isn't working. Any ideas why?


Thanks,

Nathand

/ means root, literally the root of the filesystem. It does not mean root of your public_html, or root of your user directory. You might be confused because some hosting providers have the FTP server emulate "/" to mean the root of your home directory.

You need to find the real path to your files. For example, it might be /home/nathand/public_html/nav.php.

If you are unsure, simplest way is probably to just create a sample PHP file with:

PHP Code:

echo __FILE__; 


That'll give you the full system path to that file.

Ok my previous server probably did emulate the "/" as the root directory like you said. I think I'm just going to add a variable called "$basedir" to the top of each php file and echo that out before each link.


Thanks for your reply,

Nathand

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is what you are looking for:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserve...les.server.php

You could always find the actual directory path of the file by making it give you an error. haha.

PHP Code:

echo $example
echo $example2 


missing the ';'