Question about products and directories

[Chris11987]

Since this is more of a general product question, rather than a specific one, I figured I should ask it here.

If I take a file for a product and change the code to add my forums directory, will I be able to use it outside of the vbulletin directory?

example:

require_once('./global.php');

change to:

require_once('.forums/global.php');

Will I then be able to stick the file inside my root directory instead of my forums directory?