Structure of my files is like so:
config.php
script
|--myscript.php
myscript.php
<?php
require '../config.php';
?>
When executing php /path/to/myscript.php I get Warning: require(../config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory.
Whats the reason?
That's because your current working directory is the one you call your command at, not the one your script is located in.
Use
require __DIR__ . '/../config.php';
instead. __DIR__ is a const that points to the directory current file is located in.
One way I do it, is like this:
php -d include_path=/path/to/config.php script.php
-d is used to set INI directives at runtime, so you don't have any changing code/configs/directories.
If you don't want to (or can't) change the require line in your code, just cd to the directory that your script expects to be executed within before running your script:
cd /path/to
php /path/to/myscript.php
You need to use absolute path or change working directory:
chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
Most likely you got wrong working directory so your relative paths is not pointing where you expect it to. To see how PHP sees it add:
echo getcwd();
as the 1st line of your script.
