Changing directory thread

[benc811]

changing directory

I am trying to write a script that needs to find info in another directory of the server i.e. http://www.here.com/this/mainfile.php needs to find files in http://www.here.com/other/findthis.inc anyone know what i should put i have tryed just writing out the address but it cant find it. should I CHMOD the .inc file?

 

[gamex]

Well, are you going to include the file? You can use the full path, like

/home/username/public_html/other/findthis.inc

or do something like

include('../other/findthis.inc');

 

[benc811]

Well I am including a php file that then includes its own files and finds if a user is logged in or not. If not then it displays a login form. The file works fine on its own and shows the login form when logged out and text if logged in. But when I include it into the new page it always displays the log in form even when logged in. Maybe I asked the worng question before.

Can I pm you all the code I cant seem to figure out the problem?

 

[iNod]

Or you can use

chdir("../directory");

iNod

 

[gamex]

Yea, you can PM me the code, or it would probably be better to post it here so everyone can see it

 

[benc811]

Ok well here is the first page that gets called

<?php

$phpbb_root_path = '';

define ('IN_PHPBB', true);

if (!file_exists($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'))
{
    die ('<tt>
          $phpbb_root_path is wrong.</tt>');
}

//
// phpBB related files
//

include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);

//
// Fetch All related files - we do need all these because the portal is a
// huge example
//

include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'mods/phpbb_fetch_all/common.' . $phpEx);
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'mods/phpbb_fetch_all/stats.' . $phpEx);
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'mods/phpbb_fetch_all/users.' . $phpEx);
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'mods/phpbb_fetch_all/polls.' . $phpEx);
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'mods/phpbb_fetch_all/posts.' . $phpEx);
include_once ($phpbb_root_path . 'mods/phpbb_fetch_all/forums.' . $phpEx);

//
// start session management
//

$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);

//
// since we are demonstrating span pages we need to set the page offset
//

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['start']) or isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['start']))
{
	$CFG['posts_span_pages_offset'] = isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['start']) ? $HTTP_GET_VARS['start'] : $HTTP_POST_VARS['start'];
	if (!intval($CFG['posts_span_pages_offset']))
	{
		$CFG['posts_span_pages_offset'] = 0;
	}
}

// fetch new posts since last visit
$new_posts = phpbb_fetch_new_posts();

// fetch user online, total posts, etc
$stats = phpbb_fetch_stats();

// fetch online users
$online = phpbb_fetch_online_users();

// fetch five users by total posts
$top_poster = phpbb_fetch_top_poster();

// fetch a random user
$random_user = phpbb_fetch_random_user();

// fetch forum structure
$forums = phpbb_fetch_forums();

// fetch a poll
$poll = phpbb_fetch_poll();

// fetch a single topic by topic id
// You will need to specify a certain topic id to use this function.
// The first post of that topic will be displayed in a box to the upper right.
#$topic = phpbb_fetch_topics();

// fetch latest postings
$CFG['posts_trim_topic_number'] = 25;
$recent = phpbb_fetch_posts(null, POSTS_FETCH_LAST);

// fetch postings
$CFG['posts_trim_topic_number'] = 0;
$CFG['posts_span_pages']        = true;
$news = phpbb_fetch_posts();

//
// disconnect from the database
//

phpbb_disconnect();

?>
<div align="center">
<!-- USER logged in-->
<?php if ($userdata) { ?>
<?php if ($userdata['session_logged_in']) { ?>
you are logged in<br>
<a href="<?php echo append_sid($phpbb_root_path . 'privmsg.php?folder=inbox'); ?>"><?php
if ($userdata['user_new_privmsg'] == 0) {
echo $lang['No_new_pm']; }
elseif ($userdata['user_new_privmsg'] == 1) {
echo printf($lang['New_pm'], $userdata['user_new_privmsg']); }
else {
printf($lang['New_pms'], $userdata['user_new_privmsg']); }
?></a>
<?php }
} ?>
<!-- USER logged in-->

<!-- LOGIN -->
<?php if (!$userdata or !$userdata['session_logged_in']) { ?>
<form action="http://www.annoytheworld.com/forums/login.php" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="text" name="username" size="20" maxlength="40" value="Username" /><br /><br>
<input type="text" name="password" size="20" maxlength="25" value="Password" /><br /><br>
<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="<?php echo $userdata['session_id']; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="outside" value="1" />
<input type="submit" class="mainoption" name="login" value="Login" />
</form>
<?php } ?>
<!-- LOGIN -->
</div>

This can be seen here


And For the page that calls it

<div align="center"><?php include('http://www.annoytheworld.com/forums/mods/phpbb_fetch_all/examples/portal.php'); ?></div>

This can be seen here on the left panels the one with the login boxes.

 

[gamex]

So you want to replace that last line with something like this?:

<div align="center"><?php include('../forums/mods/phpbb_fetch_all/examples/portal.php'); ?></div>

 

[benc811]

I want to change $phpbb_root_path so that I can move portal.php into a different directory .../newATW/ to be exact.

 

[iNod]

Where it says

$phpbb_root_path = '';

Replace the '' with where you want to put it..

If you want to put it in the directory newATW (/newATW) and have PHPBB in the root directory (/)

Change it to

$phpbb_root_path = '../';

I did this off my head it may not work correctly if it doesn't I will fix it for you.

iNod.

 

[benc811]

Yea I know all that but the forum is in /forums/ Its right here http://www.annoytheworld.com/forums/portal.php

 

[iNod]

So you want to move portal.php to
http://www.annoytheworld.com/newATW/portal.php

Forums are at
http://www.annoytheworld.com/forums/

Correct?

iNod

 

[benc811]

exactly