Re: How can I replace $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] in PHP 7.0?

On 13/09/2021 20:14, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I have a website that was created years ago with PHP handlers for database
> access etc. After upgrading the webhotel PHP version to 7.0 from 5.3 the site
> functionality broke!
>
> The main php file store is in htdocs/php but there are other places where these
> files are referred to as includes using this syntax:
>
> include ($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . '/php/appdbdata.php');
>
> And these includes are used in many places at different folder depths in the
> site.
> But now the only way I have found to handle this is to use relative paths and it
> does not work well for files that are moved between directories.
>
> QUESTION:
> ---------
> What can I use in PHP 7 in order to include php files relative to document root?
>
> I have tried googling but I always get to hardcodes solutions which is not good
> when files are in different directories.
>
> For the php files residing inside /php I simply replaced the construct with
> (example):
>
> include_once ('appdbdata.php');
>
> THen seemingly all worked, but only until a call was made to a php file at a
> deeper location which also included this file...
>
Have you looked at __DIR__ ? 
https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.magic.php

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