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Go back a folder in php

i know my question seems a bit vague but an example will do wonders.
For example :
When you go into a folder you use : <?php include_once 'includes/header.inc.php' ?>
when you want to go back one you use ../../ to go back you get the idea. However is there by chance a better way of doing this cuz i’ve found it’s easy to break?

vague but i hope someone can help, thanks in advance.

I’ve obviously tried the ../ to go back to parent directory or folder. When i google i tend to find how to go back using header etc but i dont think that’ll help me much.

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  1. 0

    Use your DOCUMENT_ROOT as the starting point for all your includes and requires… That way it will be portable between dev and production as well.

    Here you can read about $_SERVER

    IE

    include_once $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . '/public/foo/bar/includes/header.inc.php';
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    Rather than basing everything off of the document root, which is not necessarily the root of your actual project, nor is it populated outside of an HTTP context, I generally do the following.

    In a config file for which you definitely know the location relative to your application’s root:

    define('APP_ROOT', realpath(__DIR__ . '/../path/to/dir'));
// will result in something like: /var/www/somesite/path/to/dir

    and, for good measure:

    define('WEB_ROOT', 'https://example.com/my/app/');
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