Load EE Field Type in Third Party Module

Question

I am trying to load wygwam field type into a custom module, on my localhost the following works:

require_once(APPPATH . 'fieldtypes/EE_FieldType.php');
require_once(PATH_THIRD.'wygwam/ft.wygwam.php');
$wyg = new Wygwam_ft();

however when i upload to my server i get the following error:

require_once(../system/expressionengine/fieldtypes/EE_fieldType.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

I dont know why thats happening. Is there a better way to load the wygwam Field type? or is there any other way to do this?

Answer 1

Looking carefully at your error message, you may have some incorrect capitalization of the EE_Fieldtype class file name. EE_Fieldtype.php is the correct way (uppercase F, lowercase t). Likely your localhost is case insensitive but your server is not.