include_path issues, newbie trying to become intermediate

I've built several basic dB driven things in php, but I'm getting frustrated
lately when I try to use more complicated apps downloaded from sf.net

In a nutshell, I get tons of failed to open stream: No such file or
directory
with any app that uses a sequence of "installer pages"

Naturally, I went to php.ini -- my include path value is presently:
include_path='.;c:\apache\php\includes;c:\apache\h tdocs'

is this a bad setting? terrible? I have encountered these errors when
installing Ampoliros, Gallery, and zShaped (oddly enough, zFeeder seems to
be okay)

Anyway, I'm continuing my research into the problem(s) and any help is
appreciated.

Matthew Crouch wrote:
> I've built several basic dB driven things in php, but I'm getting frustrated
> lately when I try to use more complicated apps downloaded from sf.net
>
> In a nutshell, I get tons of failed to open stream: No such file or
> directory
> with any app that uses a sequence of "installer pages"
>
> Naturally, I went to php.ini -- my include path value is presently:
> include_path='.;c:\apache\php\includes;c:\apache\h tdocs'
>
> is this a bad setting? terrible? I have encountered these errors when
> installing Ampoliros, Gallery, and zShaped (oddly enough, zFeeder seems to
> be okay)
>
> Anyway, I'm continuing my research into the problem(s) and any help is
> appreciated.
>
>
It would help if you showed the actual include lines producing the
errors, but it's probably because these apps are written for linux and
using / as a directory delimiter instead of \. This may help or php my
be able to distinguish the difference, but in my experience, php doesn't
translate these for the platform you're on.

-Calico Jack-