Currently in my .htaccess file I am setting include_path such as this:

 php_value include_path /mnt/webs/mysite/includes:/usr/share/pear

However this isn't great if I need to put my sites on a new server as I need to go through a whole load of sites updating each .htaccess. Basically would like a way to basically say "use the folder called includes in the site root (I run a variety of different sites off one server so each .htaccess file and include path will be different).

In a related question on here I had someone use:

 inclue(dirname(__FILE__)."/inc2.php");

But this is in code and might be a bit annoying to do everytime, however should I just use this method and scrap the idea of using .htaccess?