Robert, thanks for the reply but i had tried __FILE__ and __DIR__
(which is dirname(__FILE__)) but it doesnt work.
And thanks for the reply also Ashley but as i said in my first post, i
had tried $_SERVER with limited results
Ólafur Waage
2008/8/23 Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 22:13 -0400, Eric Butera wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Ólafur Waage <olafurw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I'll throw out an example here.
>> >
>> > I have a directory structure of: /var/www/example/
>> > And in that i have a file: index.php
>> > That file echo's getcwd() and returns: /var/www/example/
>> >
>> > Now i tell Apache or Lighty that if a directory does not have an
>> > index.php file, that it should use /example/index.php (for example via
>> > DirectoryIndex of Apache)
>> >
>> > Then i make a new directory: /var/www/test/
>> > And browse to it and it echo's /var/www/example/ since its running
>> > that file via DirectoryIndex
>> >
>> > This is true for all directories i make. Both for Windows and Linux
>> > based servers.
>> >
>> > To my question.
>> >
>> > I am trying to get the full path of the current directory i am in. Not
>> > from where the file is executing. How is that possible so it displays
>> > a full path to that directory (regardless to the server setup)?
>> >
>> > I have tried a variation of things and have gotten mixed results.
>> > Using $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] gives me the index file and the full
>> > path to that.
>> > $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] gets me part of the way but on a hosted
>> > server with multiple domains it only gives me a partial path (rough
>> > example: /var/www/ when the directory is /var/www/domain.com/test/)
>> > And __FILE__ gives me the index.php's path.
>> > I have also tried realpath(".");
>> > And server("pwd"); with no luck.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Ólafur Waage
>> >
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>>
>> Maybe dirname(__FILE__) will help.
>
> When I'm looking for candidates to determine stuff like this I usually
> do print_r( $_SERVER ) and see what's what.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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