Path help please!

[captainccs]

I'm getting this error:

require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Archive/Tar.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php')

I'm on a shared server and 'Archive/Tar.php' is at

/home/user/php/Archive/Tar.php

What would the correct include_path be?

[tpunt]

What directory are you including the file from? Also, can you post the require statement so that we can see where you're going wrong?

[captainccs]

I'm on shared LAMP server.

PEAR is installed at

/home/user/php/Archive/
/home/user/php/PEAR/
/home/user/php/PEAR.php

The file calling the Archive/Tar.php script is at

/home/user/includes/classes/Archive.php

The require statement is

require_once 'Archive/Tar.php'; 

This works:

set_include_path ('/home/user/php');
require_once 'Archive/Tar.php';
restore_include_path(); 

My question is how is that "include_path" set in the ".:/usr/etc./etc./etc." format?

In other words, what do I use for an "include_path" instead of

'.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php'

[wh33t]

I'm on shared LAMP server.

PEAR is installed at

/home/user/php/Archive/
/home/user/php/PEAR/
/home/user/php/PEAR.php

The file calling the Archive/Tar.php script is at

/home/user/includes/classes/Archive.php

The require statement is

require_once 'Archive/Tar.php'; 

This works:

set_include_path ('/home/user/php');
require_once 'Archive/Tar.php';
restore_include_path(); 

My question is how is that "include_path" set in the ".:/usr/etc./etc./etc." format?

In other words, what do I use for an "include_path" instead of

'.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php'

Edit **
Woops, I misread your post.

I think in this case, a relative path such as Archive/Tar.php will be assumed that Archive is in the PEAR installation directory. Anytime I run PHP from a command line I always use absolute pathing.

[captainccs]

I guess my question comes down to "What does the /usr/ in the include path mean? How does it relate to the file path (/home/user/the/rest/of/the/path) ?

[tpunt]

I'm on a shared server and 'Archive/Tar.php' is at

/home/user/php/Archive/Tar.php

The file calling the Archive/Tar.php script is at

/home/user/includes/classes/Archive.php

Using a relative path, can you tell me if the following works?

require '../../php/Archive/Tar.php'; 

It looks like we need to go up two directories (from classes to user), and then traverse along the php and Archive directories.

I would suggest, however, that you use an absolute path because no resolving has to be done (making them quicker). For this, we can use the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable, and then add on the relative path to the file from there. I'm not sure what you have your DOCUMENT_ROOT directive defined as, but if you echo it out, then your can just add on the necessary directories to it:

require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/path/to/file.php'; 

[captainccs]

This works (3 back, not 2)

    require_once '../../../php/Archive/Tar.php'; 

This works

    set_include_path ('../../../php');
    require_once 'Archive/Tar.php'; 

This does not work

    require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/path/to/file.php'; 

The script happens to be in a subdomain and $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returns

/home/user/public_html/subdomain

which is in the public directory, not the root. In the main domain it would return

/home/user/public_html

not too reliable.

Much neglected __FILE__, on the other hand, returns

/home/user/includes/classes/Archive.php

which is better but still no help.

I'm sticking with absolute path

    set_include_path ('/home/user/php');
    require_once 'Archive/Tar.php';
    restore_include_path(); 

Thanks all!

EDIT - This also works:

$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$pos = strpos($path, 'public_html');
$path = substr($path, 0, $pos).'php';
set_include_path ($path);
require_once 'Archive/Tar.php';
restore_include_path();