PHP newbie question

[Frost]

Hello.

I'm trying to teach myself PHP and a friend showed me how to setup some dynamic relative links. ( no idea if this is what their actually called )

So I have this in my header:

$basePath = "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . "/";


and ill apply it to a link: <a href="<?php echo $basePath?>link/to/page/">

That works fine, and i understand how it works, but what i can't figure out is how would i apply that variable when using the Require() function?

here is one of my Requires:

Require("../includes/links/leftlinks.php");

Is it possible at all to add the variable to that?

Cheers for any help.
Anthony

 

[Beansprout]

$serverPath = "/the/directory/your/site/is/in-/ask/your/host";

require($serverpath . "includes/foo/bar.php");

 

[Frost]

ahh excellent

thanks

 

[Dj_Jestar]

$serverpath = realpath('.') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

or just.. $_SERVER['HTTP_DOCROOT'];


However.. be wary..

http://www.yoursite.com/../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd