On my site, I have a file of general purpose functions in the site root called “mysite_functions.php.” I have WordPress installed in /wordpress, and bbPress installed in /wordpress/bbpress. I have altered wp_setcookie() and wp_clearcookie() in a WordPress plugin. In those two functions, I use require_once('../mysite_functions.php');, and then the function call. It works fine.

The problem comes in the bbPress plugins. I have a plugin overriding bb_login() and bb_logout(). In each of those functions I use the exact same code to call mysite_functions.php, but I get “failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [file path] [line number]”

In either case, the functions are unchanged with the exception of appending:

require_once("../mysite_functions.php");

call_my_function();

[@trent Member 17 years, 11 months ago]

Why not run an absolute path?

require_once(/var/www/html/mysite_function.php);

Does that work?

If it is root bbPress folder, you could use what is in config.php

require_once( BBPATH . 'mysite_function.php' );

Should be pretty easy……?

Trent

[@mouse8b Member 17 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks! I didn’t think to include the absolute path. I had the path as http://www.mysite.com/mysite_function.php, but that didn’t work. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@null Member 17 years, 11 months ago]

You need to include http:// if you use an absolute path!

[@trent Member 17 years, 11 months ago]

Unless you use server path. Either way should work I thinks! lol

Trent