Help tracking down error - Failed opening required

[papaschloss]

I have some code in a directory in my forum directory that keeps causing the following error whenever I call it:

Failed opening required 'DIR/includes/class_dm.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear')

I've traced the problem to this point:
1) My function calls process_logout() in functions_login.php. (I have included functions_login.php with require_once - that is working and not an issue here).
2) In process_logout() on line 341 (I'm running version 3.6.8) the following call is made:

$userdata =& datamanager_init('User', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_SILENT);

This is where the problem starts.
3) The function datamanager_init() is in the file functions.php. In this file, at line 74, the following call is made:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_dm.php');

4) DIR is defined in init.php with the following line:

if (!empty($vbulletin->config['Misc']['forumpath']))
{
     define('DIR', $vbulletin->config['Misc']['forumpath']);
}

5) I checked my config.php and I do have this defined properly:

$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '/var/www/testvb';

So that's as far as I've gotten. If anyone can see something that I can't here then please tell me. I'm at an impasse right now.

Thanks!

[MoT3rror]

Are you including class_dm.php or is vbulletin doing it?

[papaschloss]

Thanks for the reply...

Originally Posted by papaschloss

3) The function datamanager_init() is in the file functions.php. In this file, at line 74, the following call is made:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_dm.php');

VB is including class_dm.php in the file functions.php when datamanater_init() is called.

--------------- Added [DATE]1207848468[/DATE] at [TIME]1207848468[/TIME] ---------------

I'm not entirely sure how but I think that somehow I was overwriting the value for DIR in my script, thus causing the problem in functions.php where class_dm.php was being included.

In my script, when I changed this

define('FORUM_ROOT', $this->config['Misc']['forumpath']);

to this

define('DIR', $this->config['Misc']['forumpath']);

everything seemed to work fine. Well, so far, so good anyway. :-)