php include file does not include

Question

I'm using eloquent orm independently(not in laravel). In a higher level folder I tried:

include '../app/configdb.php';

Which does not work: However if I use this:

$oldcwd = getcwd();
chdir("../");
include 'app/configdb.php';
chdir($oldcwd);

This works. This is only true of my eloquent initialization file. Later in same file I:

require '../views/petlist.php';

And that works. Any ideas why the ../ won't work? And I did try require instead of include.

Answer 1

The configdb.php loads the eloquent orm stuff. Contents of that file. So yes from this file eloquent is requiring other stuff.

    <?php

use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
$capsule = new Capsule();
$capsule->addConnection([
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => 'localhost',
    'database'  => 'pbackdate',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
]);
//added/
//use Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher;
//use Illuminate\Container\Container;
//$capsule->setEventDispatcher(new Dispatcher(new Container));

//added
$capsule->setAsGlobal();
$capsule->bootEloquent();