How to get PHP to use relative filenames...

[Gannyaa]

I've been learning PHP since I got my Abyss Server ware, but now I am having trouble with relative links.

Problem is I have a lot of counters and other changing dynamic data on my website and I would like to put all the counters their own folder.

so root folder is /webserver/

counter.php is sitting in /webserver/2005/folder/counter.php

and counter.txt is in /webserver/counters/

How do I get php to read and write to the counters folder from the /webserver/2005/folder/?

PHP can't find that folder ... it keeps looking in the current folder its sitting in!
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[cmxflash]

Try using ../../counters/counter.txt

[aprelium]

Gannyaa,

Are you using Windows? Is /webserver/2005/folder/counter.php the real path in your hard drive of that file?
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[pkSML]

Relative paths to counter.txt (works for filesystem calls and URLs when URL is available to server)

It's in current directory --> ./counter.txt
It's up one directory --> ../counter.txt
It's up two directories --> ../../counter.txt
It's in a subdirectory called today --> ./today/counter.txt

For filesystem calls, you might also consider hard-coded paths: (think a relative path that starts with the drive root)

/abyss/htdocs/today/counter.txt
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[Gannyaa]

Thanks for your answers.

I think I'll try both the hard coding method and
http://domain.com/counters

the ../.. / etc or you know what I mean.
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[Gannyaa]

Thanks cmxflash. I used that precisely ../../

I am using windows...
and I find php not as friendly as javascript or html or css

My actual web folder dir setup is kinda like...

my web
|_beach
|_gannyaa
|_wynston

each folder is set up sorta like so

/wynston/2005/
/wynston/2006/
/wynston/2007/
/wynston/2007/sir_kelsea/userdata/
/wynston/gbook/
/wynston/gbook/emotions/
/wynston/gbook/img/
/wynston/images/
/wynston/images/butterflys/
/wynston/scripts/

I'm not relocating the userdata into a separate folder but keeping the comment script (gbook) accessible by all php pages.

You're reply's have been most useful. I am still playing around with the captcha script ... but first I need my ArgoSoft to work with PHP.
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