title: php require_once resetting to current working directory
body: <p>This is a longshot but I have a file with something like this:</p>
  
  <p>document structure:
  /some/path/start.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  require_once '../../another/path/test.php';
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p>/another/path/test.php
  /another/path/images/</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php 
  test.php
  hello&lt;img src='images/1.jpg'&gt;
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm looking for a way for the required file (test.php) to correctly load the images (essentially reset what it believes to be the currrent directory). I don't want to force people to use absolue paths and really don't want to add some variable in there. Is there a php construct to handle this? I'm using Zend_Framework. Maybe the reverse, a construct to have multiple index.php files that map via absolute paths to my starter script for Zend Framework. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas would be appreciated? I have the following there's an elegant sol'n - I'm just not seeing it.</p>