Wordpress define ABSPATH not resolved

[Dave Shaffer]

I am trying to use Dev-PHP to develop a wordpress site. I have run into a major stumbling block in that wordpress defines ABSPATH its local path but when I use it, it is not resolved:  
       require_once( ABSPATH.'LHC_Services.php' );
The statement that defines it is wp-load statement 20:
       define( 'ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

This works outside of Dev-PHP.

Any ideas?

Dave

[Dave Shaffer]

OOPS! Forgot a couple things

Dev-PHP is at 2.4.0
localhost on Windows Vista
XAMPP Lite 1.7.3
   Apache 2.2.14
   PHP 5.3.3
  
error mesages are:

Warning: require_once(ABSPATHLHC_Services.php) : failed to open stream: No such file or directory in F:\xampplite\htdocs\LitehausConsulting\MyPages\HomePage.php on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() : Failed opening required 'ABSPATHLHC_Services.php' (include_path='.;\xampplite\php\PEAR') in F:\xampplite\htdocs\LitehausConsulting\MyPages\HomePage.php on line 3

[Pierre Fauconnier]

Hello Dave,

Thanks for this accurate report + sorry for the late reply

> define( 'ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );
> require_once( ABSPATH.'LHC_Services.php' );
> /Warning message/
> require_once(ABSPATHLHC_Services.php) : failed to open stream

Well, it seems that the "define" statement has not been executed, because ABSPATH has been substituted to… 'ABSPATH'

> This works outside of Dev-PHP. Any ideas?
First, an initialization is missing :)
Second, you started the program with another php script than the php script which should be called at startup (index.php ?)

Regards, Pierre