php - Is it possible to use the require statement with BASE_URL?

Question

I added the below code in my connection.php

define('BASE_URL', 'http://example.com/');

Now, Is it possible to use BASE_URL with require like

 require('".BASE_URL."/connection.php');

Why I am doing this because I have a connection file in my root folder and I have some files in the below path

view/admin/company/employee/empid/details.php

and I have to add the connection file inside details.php. I can do using something like this(../../../../) but I don't want to do this.

Is there any best way to handle this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65952830/is-it-possible-to-use-the-require-statement-with-base-url

Answer 1

You can use PHP Global Functions for this.

$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]

Also, you can use PHP magic functions

__DIR__