Absolute Path related question

Hi Folks

What is the diffrent between below two ?

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/includes/session_validate.php");
require_once("/includes/session_validate.php");

If you run a simple test file like this what do you see?

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/includes/session_validate.php";
echo "/includes/session_validate.php";
/home4/xxxxx/public_html/visa/includes/session_validate.php
/includes/session_validate.php

Oh, previous one goes up to the root folder of our hosting while latter seems referring to the project / sub domain root :slight_smile:

So which one i should go for? pros and cons i mean.

Well, only one of the two would actually WORK. So…

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