$DOCUMENT_ROOT doesn´t work in a require_once

[websalacarta]

Hi, I don´t understand what´s happening here... any indea?

echo ($DOCUMENT_ROOT);
require_once('lib/pictures.php');

lib/picture.php

echo ($DOCUMENT_ROOT);

first $DOCUMENT_ROOT works, but the one in the lib/picture doesn´t
why $DOCUMENT_ROOT in lib/picture.php doesn´t work?
thanks

[mdangelo]

so your on ensim?

[websalacarta]

I don´t know, I´m using a shared hosting, what does "ensim" mean?

so your on ensim?

[mdangelo]

Ensim I believe is the name of your hosting control panel software. $DOCUMENT_ROOT as far as i know is an ensim defined variable.

Anyway why are you using that- or am I wrong and it happens to be one you defined somewhere??

[websalacarta]

My control panel is cpanel

I thougth $DOCUMENT_ROOT was a php environment constant

I want to use it because I want my code to be portable when I change the server and/or the folder

Thanks

[Atrix]

I think you mean:

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

$DOCUMENT_ROOT is actually not a predefined PHP variable.

[mdangelo]

yeah - $DOCUMENT_ROOT I think is one that works on ensim from what I recall. But yeah I wasnt thinking about the one that atrix mentioned.

Take care.

[websalacarta]

oh dear!

I always have the same mistake...

thanks very much for your help

[mdangelo]

referencing things by /var/www/html* and stuff like that tends to be agood when working with php and such becqause most hosting platforms work that way.


Portability is always of concern.

[Lucas Chan]

referencing things by /var/www/html* and stuff like that tends to be agood when working with php and such becqause most hosting platforms work that way.

Portability is always of concern.

Hard coding '/var/www/html' into your files is usually not a good thing to do.

I would suggest using $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]. This will be especially helpful if you write your code on a development server and later deploy it to a production server.

If you absolutely must hard code a path, try to make life easier for yourself by defining it only once in some sort of configuration file that's included on each page. Having to change paths in 50 PHP files is not cool.