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ABSOLUTE-INCLUDE.PHP

A small but useful wrapper function for include(). It allows the same include statement to be used in all the files in a website, regardless of which folder they are located in.

This is handy for sites that are hosted on servers that have PHP open_basedir protection enabled. This tends to cause calls like include("/folder/file.inc"); to generate error messages.

<?
function absolute_include($file)
         {
         /*
         $file is the file url relative to the root of your site.
         Yourdomain.com/folder/file.inc would be passed as
         "folder/file.inc"
         */

         $folder_depth = substr_count($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] , "/");

         if($folder_depth == false)
            $folder_depth = 1;

         include(str_repeat("../", $folder_depth - 1) . $file);
         }
?>