Trouble with including OSC-Files outside OSC

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Hi,

I want to create a contact page outside OSC and I'd
like to relate on an already performed login so I can 
show details in the contact page, i.e. email address of 
the currently logged on user.

To be able to include 'application_top.php' from a
file which resides outside the catalog folder hierarchy 
I had to fulfil each include in application_top.php
with the entire path.

After that I was able to include 'application_top.php'
but all information seemed to be destroyed. I put the
contact file into the catalog hierarchy and noticed
that all information were available.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jobst