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PHP includes issue

PHP on Plesk / Linux

I have a custom app that I wrote and osCommerce installation.

If I want the custom app to work, I have to change php.ini's include directive to:

include_path = ".;/php/includes"

If I want the osCommerce install to work, I have to change it back to

include_path = ".:/php/includes"

The only difference is a semi colon versus a colon. How do I get them to both work at the same time?

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When I have the semi colon in effect, osCommerce gives me:

Warning: main(includes/configure.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/shop/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 29

Warning: main(includes/configure.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/shop/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 29

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/configure.php' (include_path='.;/php/includes') in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/shop/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 29

When I have th COLON in effect, I have:

Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/php/includes/lng.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/powerpanel/includes/classes/wysarea.class.php on line 16

Warning: main(lng.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/powerpanel/includes/classes/wysarea.class.php on line 16

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'lng.php' (include_path='.:/php/includes') in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/powerpanel/includes/classes/wysarea.class.php on line 16
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The semicolon is never valid in this setting. A colon is used to join two or more paths. If the custom application works with the semicolon, it needs to be altered to work using the correct format, a colon.
Hello DrDamnit,

The format of include_path is like the system's PATH environment variable: a list of directories separated with a colon in Unix or semicolon in Windows.

i.e.

in *nix include_path will be
include_path=".:/php/includes"

In Windows include_path will be
include_path=".;c:\php\includes"

you cannot use both and this is set when PHP is installed on the machine...

HTH

!i!
The setings depends on your os. For Windows you need a ; to seperate the search pathes, on linux you must use the : to seperate the search pathes. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-include-path.php for more information
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THAT's the funny part. This is a linux box. FC4. So, when the setting is incorrect, one thing works, and when it is wrong something else works......

How do I get it so that EVERYTHING works?
Hello DrDamnit

It might be something else causing problems... Please explain when there is problem and what php is pringins as an Error or Warning or whatever...

Because delimiter is a rule for php for a long time it is most likely the problem to be somewhere else...

Regards

!i!
On linux you must use the :
Maybe /php/includes is the wrin path should'nt it be more:  /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/php/includes
It depens where those global includes have been place by your webhoster and If he has added those files to the allowd dirs.
ivostoykov:
What do you mean by pringins ? The error messages are in the original post.

hernst42:

What other information can I provide you so that we can see if I need to put the full path in there?
Hello DrDamnit

Following message is quite descriptive... I've missed it

Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/php/includes/lng.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/powerpanel/includes/classes/wysarea.class.php on line 16

This means that the serve reject access to the supplied path and the reason is given -> "not within the allowed path(s):"

regards

!i!
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How do you use then in your code to include?
files in your basic include dir should just be called by

include ('filename.php');

Could you post an include tag from both cases? from the script.
Because in the first case it cannot locate the file
in the second case its redirected to: /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/tmp