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    copied!<p>Running Mac OS X 10.5.8, with PHP 5.2.11 Pre-installed. Using Coda 1.6.10.</p> <p>I'm writing PHP files, and then preview them running from file, not server. This was working fine till I tried PHP includes. These don't work as a relative path, only as an absolute from the root of the drive.</p> <p>Is there any way I can use statements like </p> <blockquote> <p>include_once "common/header.php"; </p> </blockquote> <p>without specifying my entire file path like so : </p> <blockquote> <p>include_once "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/neil/Desktop/Website/ColoredLists_v1.0/common/base.php";</p> </blockquote> <p>,where ColoredLists_v1.0 is the directory with all the website files in it. I tried solutions like prepending _SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT] or dirname(<strong>File</strong>) to the file paths, but that didn't work as the variables were not set. Is there any easy way to do this, or a configuration I can change so that it looks in a specific directory by default instead of looking at the drive root? Currently, echo_include_path shows .:</p> <p>When I include this line at the start of the script, it works:</p> <blockquote> <p>set_include_path('/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/neil/Desktop/Website/ColoredLists_v1.0');</p> </blockquote> <p>However, if I want to do this for all my scripts, I can't seem to make the change permanent. Even after I edited the Unix include_path in my php.ini, it doesn't seem to work.</p> <p>UPDATE: I finally decided that the easiest sureshot way was to run the Apache server locally. It comes preinstalled with Mac, so didnt face much trouble there. I modified the httpd.conf to only allow connections from localhost, thus alleviating my security fears. Ofcourse, this still opens up port 80, but I'm behind a router, so I'm gonna hope I'm not very exposed. And Coda includes a great features in 'Sites', where I can set the local url, so it works brilliantly now. Only downside is, now, after code edits, I need to manually refresh the preview.</p>
 

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