I cant believe I have to ask this, but everytime I try to include another php file thats not in the same directory it gives me an include_path error, so I have to put the long directories in every include string, is there a way I can just set one variable so I never have to worry about it again?
To go a higher level into the directory tree, you must use "..//"
That is you have:
directory DIR with subdirs SUB1 and SUB2 and you want to include in a file x.php from SUB1 a file y.php from SUB2 you must use: include("..//SUB2/y.php").
You can set a variable with this path.
The way I do it to always use the full root path eg /home/yoursite/the/full/path
But to make it easier I made up one script which held the path for every single page, like so:
$base = "/home/yoursite/";
$terms = $base."terms/term.php";
$sales = $base."sales.php";
etc
Anyway, then on each script, you have this code at the very top:
require_once("/home/yoursite/where/that/file/was");
and then you can include whatever pages you want by refering to their name eg include($terms) etc
by Xerpher » Tue Sep 10, 2002 4:37 pm 
but I think I'll do something similar to what you said Jay.