[why-not]

Hi

You need to change directories!

What I do for vBulletin is very basic because we only have a single directory that feeds of the main directory, unless we have to work in the CRON directory!

Anyway, the basic rule is that if you call a script that is below another directory then you need to chdir(); to call any include script that is in the directory above the script calling it!

So...

If your in...

'./includes/'

And the script './includes/example.php' has something like below...

<?

include_once ( './global.php' );

// do stuff

?>

You need to change to the directory that contains './global.php'

If you Unix/Linux, PHP uses forwarded slashes chr (47) for defined paths, on windows it uses back slashes chr ( 92 ) for defined paths!

So on Unix / Linux / Mac / ( Windows has special note below) we would do this!

<?

// get the current working directory, we put in a var $dir so we can change back to this directory if we need to!

$dir = getcwd ();

// now we change back to the directory that contains 'global.php', so we can include it and all it's function and included scripts!

/* if your windows change '47' to '92'

chdir ( substr ( $dir, 0, ( strrpos ( $dir, chr ( 47 ) ) + 1 ) ) );

// now just call the include as you would from it's directory, because we are now working in that directory!

include_once ( './global.php' );

// do stuff

// if we need to change back to this directory './includes/', we would do this!

chdir ( $dir );

?>

Sonia