Error including file (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php')

Question

I just uploaded my project to my server in var/www made using slim framework the project has a folder structure like:

include -Functions.php controller -weeklysummary.php (Script I want to run) vendor -autoload.php

When I try to call a function in the Functions.php script On my local machine the project worked fine but on the server it keeps telling me `

 Warning: require(../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/project/include/Functions.php on line 11

 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/innov8alert/include/Functions.php on line 11`

This is how Functions.php Looks like

class Functions {

private $conn;


function __construct() {
    require_once 'Connect.php';
    require '../vendor/autoload.php';
    require '../mailer/class.phpmailer.php';
    $db = new Connect();
    $this->conn = $db->connect();
}

function __destruct() {

}

I looked up this and this but none seemed to help.

Answer 1

This is due to your current working directory (CWD), which matches the one where you've started the script from. If this is a website, it should be safe to assume that CWD is where the index.php file is located.

There's 2 ways around the issue:

1) As suggested in the comments, declare a BASEPATH constant from inside index.php and always use it to prefix include paths:

// index.php:
define('BASEPATH', __DIR__.'/');

// other files:
// require BASEPATH.'path/relative/to/index.php/directory

2) Use the __DIR__ magic constant itself to prefix includes on files, but relative to where you include them from (this will immediately work in your case without other changes):

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';