After an PHP upgrade from 5.2 to 5.5 (or newer) a friend's web site is not working anymore, regarding the host identifier ($DOCUMENT_ROOT).
He is using this code:
<?php
require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/menulinks.inc.php");
$status = $menu["home"]["id"];
require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/header.inc.php");
?>
<div id="main">
<img src="images/miristart.jpg" alt="Startbild" style="margin-top 2%;"/>
</div>
<?php
require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/footer.inc.php");
?>
And that is the error code:
Warning: require(/menulinks.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/htdocs/v137122/sedcard.php on line 2
Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/menulinks.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:..') in /www/htdocs/v137122/sedcard.php on line 2
So, do I have to use another command instead of $DOCUMENT_ROOT? Which one then? Thank you very much in advance.
First $DOCUMENT_ROOT is a variable.
During the update the PHP option register_globals was set to off. You can still access the document root through the $_SERVER array. This will look like $_SERVER ['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].