How to include the same files in different directories?

[cadmium]

I need to include the same files on every page in all subdirectories. I wish not to use the complete path because I don't want to have to update the include on every page when I upload it to the web.

Any suggestions?

[sidhighwind]

Just do something like this:

 require_once('../../includes/includeme.php');
 -or-
 require_once('../includes/includeme.php'); 

Or What you could do is put the path to your include files in your php.ini file under the include_path varable and then you would just have to do this:

saying that your include_path variable has your path to your include directory in it.

require_once('includeme.php'); 

[cadmium]

Thank you.

[cadmium]

I'm prepending the links with "../" and it seems to be working fine except for the style sheet. I am linking to an external style sheet via the link "../style.css" which is in the main directory. This is contained inside "header.php." It works fine in all of the sub directories but it does not work on the index.php page. I could just copy and past the content of the header into index.php and change the stylesheet link, but I'm sure there's another way.