Wordpress include("../../../wp-blog-header"); failing

Question

I am currently working on a plugin for Wordpress involving lots of .php files. I see that for my AddShift.php file, we are successfully importing the blog header using the following line of code:

include("../../../wp-blog-header.php");

However, when I try to do the same thing in my ajax_cal_split.php file, I get the following error:

Warning: include(./wp-blog-header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/lampp/htdocs/sandboxj/blog/wp-content/plugins/Shifty/ajax_cal_split.php on line 11

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './wp-blog-header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/opt/lampp/lib/php') in /opt/lampp/htdocs/sandboxj/blog/wp-content/plugins/Shifty/ajax_cal_split.php on line 11

Line 11 of course says

include("../../../wp-blog-header.php");

Is there any reason for this call to work on one .php file and not another, when they reside in the same directory?

Answer 1

Yes - I believe wordpress operates a security mechanism on content in the wp-content directory, I had the same problem with themes. The workaround I used was to include with absolute path names.

Answer 2

Hi, I am getting the same problem here: Warning: include(../source/layout/logotipo.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/coconut/public_html/index2.html on line 16 link text