PHP include relative links

Hi
Most likly being incredibly dumb here,

I have 3 seperate files here
connection.php - connection to mysql
functions.php - odd functions
find_records.php - finds all public records
find_all_records.php - finds all nonpublic & public records

in my www root there is
connection.php - connection to mysql
functions.php - odd functions
find_records.php - finds all public records

in the nonpublic dir there is connection.php
find_all_records.php - finds all nonpublic & public records

The problem is that both find_all_records.php &find_records.php include functions.php and within functions it includes connections.php

so using include('connection.php'); would make the find_records work but the find_all_records would fail

so using include('../connection.php'); would make the find_all_records work but the find_records would fail

Any ideas?
Cheers
Dave

You know you can include more then one file right? So why not include both?

Hi

Many thanks for the reply,

The idea suggest is a good one but it is still bit of a hack (I need this code to be quite tidy) but many thanks any how probably better than current solution which is to create two versions of connection.php
root/connection.php
and
root/somedir/connection.php

with root/somedir/connection.php referencing version of
root/connection.php

Many thanks any how

DAave

What seems like another obvious solution would be to compund the files. Is this possible?

im not sure what u'r getting ta :S can u explain different ?