Require some answers on require function

[vivek94401]

Hi Folks,

I always used following code to access my config.php file.

require $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]."/config.php";

It works just fine. Only problem is I have 12 subdomains and these are growing. $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] actually takes subdomain name and looks for config.php in there. I need to keep config.php in all subdomain directories. I want to avoid this.

I want to point directly to "www.mydomain.com/config.php". If I change my password of mysql database, I will change just in this file, no need to change in all "subdomain.mydomain.com/config.php".

Is there anyway to do this with require function? If not, is there any other function out there that could solve this problem?

Thanks in advance
Vivek

[killerkooki]

Perhaps you can put a small string manipulation code to strip out the subdomain parts and put the original location?
Then again, that isn't much of an improvement from hard coding the path either.

I don't think there is anyway to get by this problem through the require function either.

[PHPCamp.com]

Run phpinfo(); in your script and scroll down to php variables. Check for any variables or combination of variables that already contain what you're looking for. For instance you might be able to use $_SERVER[HOST] and part of $_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT].

If you don't see what you need then you'll need to do some directory trickery yourself. Let us know. I do some domain and directory tricks that allows unlimited domains to use the same scripts but still have their own working directories.