Comments on Advanced PHP Tutorial: Absolute path and Relative path file inclusion in PHP

RE the types of slashes It shouldn't matter t...

2011-01-03T15:59:44.672-08:00

RE the types of slashes

It shouldn't matter to windows if you use the forward slash. Although, if you want to be a stickler about it, you can always use the "DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR" constant.

require_once(ABSPATH . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'wp-settings.php');

Just a quick tip, since PHP 5.3 a constant is adde...

2010-12-31T04:20:48.471-08:00

Just a quick tip, since PHP 5.3 a constant is added: __DIR__ this constant replaces the of dirname(__FILE__);

So if you have PHP 5.3 installed use __DIR__.

Maybe it is better to leave the definition as: de...

2010-11-18T14:55:39.224-08:00

Maybe it is better to leave the definition as:

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__));

and add the slash manually when needed, depending on the operating system, as windows expects a "\" while unix expects a "/".

Linux:

require_once(ABSPATH.’/wp-settings.php’);

Windows:
require_once(ABSPATH.’\wp-settings.php’);