Hi,

I am starting a project, that will consist of same custon code and some general code. The general code will be used for different instances of the project.

A short example:
I have webshop code, in the folder user/www/shop
I have custom code in the user/www folder

I don't want to have many copies of the shop folder, I basicly want the folder shop to point to one instance of the code.

A php script with includes, located in the general shop folder /mycode/shop/ can not include the files in its root folder because root is not /home/user1/www/ but /mycode .

My question is: how can I use the same code in different user directories without having to have multiple copies.

I hope the question is clear.

Put the shop code in a location accesible to all users. Then create a symlink in the user's dir pointing to the general code. Should work fine.

That is what I had, but it does not work fine.

Because when the shop code wants to include a user config file, by doing 'include ("../config.php");' it does not go to the users dir with '..' but goes up to the root of the shop dir.

/home/user1/www/shop/ -> /mycode/shop/
/home/user1/www/config.php
/home/user1/www/readme.txt

/mycode/shop/index.php
/mycode/readme.txt

if the index.php in the shop dir does a include of ../readme.txt it will include the readme in the mycode dir, not in the user1/www dir . If I do an include of config.php it will just fail saying that no config.php is found.