Oh, duh, Apache rewrite rules. Um. (Now I just have to learn how to write them.)
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I need PHP to go up one level of a directory, then go back down several more, to include a file. I don’t know how to do this, but I’ve been getting around it by using a URL instead of a path; now Dreamhost is turning off the option of using URLs in include statements, for (good) security reasons, so I can’t do that anymore.
I also absolutely can’t find a way to do it the path way. It won’t work with an absolute path from the root directory, nor from the highest web-accessible directory (I’m in a Linux / Apache environment, if you hadn’t guessed). I can’t use ..s to ratchet up, or do any other kind of relative movement I can think of. Does anyone know how to get what I want?
Actually, Lisa, I think you’re the only PHP programmer who reads this, so maybe I should have just emailed you. But I might be wrong.
Update 0224 hrs: Never mind. I found out how to do it, but it doesn’t help, since I need to have Apache parse the file (a NewsBruiser portal CGI, if you hadn’t guessed) before I grab it, and an internal include obviously doesn’t do that. I’ll have to use the curl library, once I figure out what it is.
And I know I’m a bad programmer for going with this setup in the first place, but I had the choice of frames, meta refreshes or dumping a load on PHP, and it was rocks and frying pans all over.
A Reminder
The fact that there exists someone more x than you does not mean that you are not x.
There’s a section of Barret Avenue (on my bus ride) that is apparently being cleaned up by a volunteer group, or has pledged to reduce its emissions, or something. As part of some city PR rep’s bright idea, they’ve demarcated it with signs as “The Green Mile.”
Which is a nickname for the walk to the electric chair.
I should mention that one of the reasons my resume is changing is that the thing I talked about late Wednesday night? Totally happened. Bam!
Its name was Ivangrad
Last night I updated my resume for the first time since 2003, since this month is the first time it’s actually changed. I wrote it as HTML rather than a Word file, because I don’t like the latter, even if it would guarantee me the magic resume qualification of fitting everything on one page. My career counselors in college were psychotic about this, but since I’m not mailing any hard copies at the moment, I don’t think it matters for this one.
I uploaded the resume to the site, but I’m not going to link it, since it reveals my physical location. Maybe if you’re mad foxy clever you’ll figure out where it is. And no, I’m not getting a new job any time soon.
The point of this entry was that I only realized this morning that the color scheme I used for the document was the same as the exterior paint on the first house where I lived, in Georgetown.
One of the nice things about my site’s log files: I now know empirically that xorph.com plays in Peoria.
Let’s see if LJ picks it up this time
In case you can’t read the text on the second one (which would be the back), it’s the Devil’s Dictionary 2.0 definition of “blog,” so of course this would be pending Mr. Knauss’s approval.
Seriously, if I got a couple dozen of these printed up, would anybody else be into it? I know my bitter, self-mocking iconoclasm is somewhat uncommon within my circle of readers, but there is a time and place for the ironic acknowledgement of one’s own participation in an overhyped and crass medium of expression. Like, say, concerts.