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Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply

From "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Getting the website document root portably (Apache, IIS, maybe others) and simply
Date 2014-11-13 21:04 +0100
Organization solani.org
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James Harris wrote:

> Hence the question: is there a simple, 
> portable way to get the web site's base directory in a form that is easy to 
> use in subsequent PHP code?

If the PHP script is placed in the webroot you can use:

  realpath('.')

If the script is placed somewhere else use the respective relative path
to the webroot as argument.  In most cases you don't need an absolute
path, though.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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