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Is that an absolute path on the server or for the url? I'm guessing there is more to the path before /Connections/ on the server. This needs to be included for it to be an absolute path on the server.
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That is the absolute path for the url<br />
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Does the require_once() command work differently to the include() command.<br />
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What's the difference?
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Prepending your path with $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] may fix your issue depending on your server configuration.<br />
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require_once($_SERVER['DOC<wbr />UMENT_ROOT<wbr />'].'/Conne<wbr />ctions/con<wbr />n_xxx.php'<wbr />);
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Using an absolute path works, but the directory you are using is not there.<br />
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If you are on linux server, you will need to also include the home directory like:<br />
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require_once('/home/u/user<wbr />/public_ht<wbr />ml/Connect<wbr />ions/con_x<wbr />xx.php');<br />
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also, if you try to include via http like your 2nd example, this causes the php script to be executed before its included so you won't be able to use the classes this way, you must use relative path.<br />
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To find relative path use realpath()<br />
<a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php</a>
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If conn_xxx.php is always going to be the same but just called from different directories then why don't you put the file somewhere in the Include path and then all the directory problems go away. &nbsp;Just do:<br />
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require_once('conn_xxx.php<wbr />');<br />
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For security purposes you could put it outside of the document root so it isn't accessible by a URL but is is accessible by the file path in the include statement.<br />
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I have the below code which basically goes to a file which connects to my mysql database.<br />
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require_once('Connections/<wbr />conn_xxx.p<wbr />hp');<br />
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How this code is within a template and I want folder destination to work regardless of the folder level of the connecting file.<br />
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So I though the below would work so starts at the root.<br />
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require_once('/Connections<wbr />/conn_xxx.<wbr />php');<br />
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but it failed and so did the below:<br />
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require_once('<a href="http://www.xxxx.com/Connections/conn_xxx.php'" rel="ugc">http://www.xxxx.com/Connections/conn_xxx.php'</a>);<br />
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Why is this? I would have thought an absolute path would be fine?
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I have the below code which basically goes to a file which connects to my mysql database.

require_once('Connections/conn_xxx.php');

How this code is within a template and I want folder destination to work regardless of the folder level of the connecting file.

So I though the below would work so starts at the root.

require_once('/Connections/conn_xxx.php');

but it failed and so did the below:

require_once('http://www.xxxx.com/Connections/conn_xxx.php');

Why is this? I would have thought an absolute path would be fine?

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