require_once is not loading file in PHP

Question

I am running a Cron Job which requires me to load a file from one directory above my PHP script. Here is my file structure:

folder
--subfolder
  --my-script.php
  --header.php
--wp-load.php
--wp-config.php

I want to run my-script.php while loading the files file-a.php , load-it.php and file-b.php .

I was using the following code to load respective files:

require_once("header.php");


require_once("../wp-load.php");
require_once("../wp-config.php");

When I run the script in browser after uploading on the server or run it locally, the file paths are located correctly. However, when I run it as a Cron Job, only the header.php is loaded.

How can I correctly load the other files so that they run properly as a Cron Job?

Update: I have tried using:

require_once(__DIR__."/wp-load.php");

as well as

require_once(__DIR__."../wp-load.php");

They both don't work.

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Cron you'd need to refer to the full path to get it working correctly.

This will get you wp-load if it is one directory above the current file:

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-load.php' );