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October 12th, 2005, 09:29 PM

willjzab

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accessing files outside document root

Ive looked all over (well probaby not ALL over) and I couldn't find a suitable answer, so here is my question:

How would I go about accessing files outside my document root with Apache2 on Win Std Server 2003 with a php script?
the script always dies at the opendir :

php Code:

Original - php Code
$data_filedir = "data"; $data_handle = opendir($data_filedir) or die("$data_filedir is not a dir"); while (false !== ($data_file = readdir($data_handle))) { $lastname_from_file = substr($data_file,0,strlen($row2[lastname])); if ($data_file != "." && $data_file != "..") { if ( strcasecmp($lastname_from_file,$row2[lastname]) == 0) { $data_file_array[]=$data_file; } } } closedir($data_handle);

 
    $data_filedir = "data";
    $data_handle = opendir($data_filedir) or die("$data_filedir is not a dir");
    while (false !== ($data_file = readdir($data_handle))) {
        $lastname_from_file = substr($data_file,0,strlen($row2[lastname]));
        if ($data_file != "." && $data_file != "..") {
            if ( strcasecmp($lastname_from_file,$row2[lastname]) == 0) {
                $data_file_array[]=$data_file;
            }
        }
    }
    closedir($data_handle);

October 27th, 2005, 06:28 PM

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RE: accessing files outside document root

I don't know that you really want to do.
Look, this is what worked out for me.
I'm hosted on a commercial server
so the directory structure is somethink like
/home/public_html/
Let's say that I have an index.php on public_html/
Here i want to include /home/sql_connection.php
I just use relative paths
In index.php i would use something like

php Code:

Original - php Code
include ('../sql_connection.php');

 
include ('../sql_connection.php');

So something like:

php Code:

Original - php Code
$data_filedir = '../data';

 
$data_filedir = '../data';

might work for you, just maybe!

November 2nd, 2005, 12:22 AM

sleighboy

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RE: accessing files outside document root

Just use an absolute path, remember to escape the backslashes though.

c:\winnt\somefile.txt

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