Help setting up Path Constants

[TomTees]

I am following a book and need help setting up Path Constants.

 

Here is the script I need to adjust...

 

	// Constants
define('BASE_URI', '/path/to/Web/parent/folder/');
define('BASE_URL', 'www.example.com');
define('MYSQL', '/path/to/mysql.inc.php');

Since I am working in NetBeans, I do not have access above my Project Folder which serves as my "Web Root".

 

So if my Project Folder is called "MyProjectFolder", and I want both BASE_URI and BASE_URL to point to that directory on my laptop, what should I put?

 

I'm thinking something like this...

 

	// Constants
define('BASE_URI', '/');
define('BASE_URL', '/');
define('MYSQL', '/includes/mysql.inc.php');

 

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[btherl]

BASE_URL should probably look like the original one, ie a host name.

[TomTees]

BASE_URL should probably look like the original one, ie a host name.

 

Again, I am developing locally on my laptop.

 

There is no web URL...

 

That is why I am asking how to set it up locally and point it to my Web Root.

 

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[btherl]

What do you type into the browser when you want to see the website?

[TomTees]

What do you type into the browser when you want to see the website?

 

I don't type anything.

 

I hit Shift+F6 in NetBeans.

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[trq]

Which opens a browser.

 

What base url do you see in the browsers address?

[TomTees]

Which opens a browser.

 

What base url do you see in the browsers address?

 

 

http://localhost/01_KnowledgeIsPower/index.php

 

where "01_KnowledgeIsPower" is the name of my "project" in NetBeans.

 

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[btherl]

Try these settings:

 

	// Constants
define('BASE_URI', '/01_KnowledgeIsPower/');
define('BASE_URL', 'localhost');
define('MYSQL', '/includes/mysql.inc.php');

 

It's a bit tricky to know what they're expecting there, as those are not what I would normally consider a URI or URL.  So instead I'm trying to go based on the example values.

[TomTees]

Try these settings:

 

	// Constants
define('BASE_URI', '/01_KnowledgeIsPower/');
define('BASE_URL', 'localhost');
define('MYSQL', '/includes/mysql.inc.php');

 

It's a bit tricky to know what they're expecting there, as those are not what I would normally consider a URI or URL.  So instead I'm trying to go based on the example values.

 

What they are expecting was documented in my original post.

 

I tried your idea above but it doesn't seem to work.

 

config.inc.php

define('BASE_URL', 'localhost');

 

 

index.php

<?php
include (BASE_URL . '/includes/footer.html');
?>

 

 

Yields this error...

Warning: include(localhost/includes/footer.html) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/user1/Documents/DEV/++htdocs/01_KnowledgeIsPower/index.php on line 23

Call Stack

# Time Memory Function Location

1 0.0012 56064 {main}( ) ../index.php:0

 

 

TomTees

 

 

[trq]

You shouldn't be including files via urls, you include files via the file system path to that file.

 

Your going to need to provide more information about what the settings should be, the examples are not helping because obviously they aren't correct and the names of the constants aren't exactly meaningful.