php include - above root directory

[vishal]

marshian u made an important point...... good i support u

[misson]

If you want to make things really simple, put an init.php in ~/public_html and include it with a include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/init.php'). Within init.php, add top-level include paths:

// add ~/include/php and doc root to include path
set_include_path(get_include_path() 
        . PATH_SEPARATOR . dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/include/php'
        . PATH_SEPARATOR . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']); 

If you want to get fancy, define a function to append to the include path:

 function addToIncludePath($path) {
    $currIncPath = get_include_path();
    if (!preg_match('#(^|' . PATH_SEPARATOR . ')'.preg_quote($path, '#').'(' . PATH_SEPARATOR . '|$)#', $currIncPath)) {
        set_include_path($currIncPath . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);
    }
} 

If you're on paid hosting, you can set auto_prepend_file (with php_value in .htaccess) to make this even easier, including init.php implicitly. At that point you can set include_path directly, but doing it in init.php means it's auto-configuring; you don't need to have a different configuration for your development and live servers.

[vishal]

Really helpfull misson, thks for the info

[tillabong]

thanks for all the help. but how do you include a file that is not under /home/user/public_html. lets says i put it in /home/user/databse folder.how do i use php include to direct the file there?

if my root folder is /home/user/public_html/mysite.com and i put my database log in file above my root site but still under public_html folder. why wont it be safe? cause my root directory is still /home/user/public_html/mysite.com and people cant access files above my root directory if they access my website right?

sorry i know thats a bit too many questions. im really new at this. hope you guys could help me out. thanks.

[vishal]

U can use relative path like inclued "/home/user/databse.php"
If you looking for more security u will have to begin from the first.Try using relative path it nust work

[tillabong]

it doesnt work.

[vishal]

Sorry, i will give a try to solve it and if i get i will post you

[Anna]

I do believe that to be able to include a file not in the public_html folder (or one of its subfolders), you'll need to use absolute path.

Should be something like: /home/cpanelusername/path/to/script/script.php

[vishal]

I just tried using relative path and it just working fine... I dont know why you ends up with error

[tillabong]

i created a folder home/user/Database and i put the database login file in that folder using php include.

include_once '/home/user/Database/db_connect.php';

and it gave this error.

include_once(/home/user/Database/db_connect.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory