[PHP] Getting The Document Root
I'm looking for a method that would be able to extract the user's true document root (e.g. /home/jeremy/public_html/) so that I can use it for some filesystem scanning functions. I'm trying to avoid hard-coding supported document roots in favor of being able to dynamically detect it, but nothing is coming to mind. I thought I would consult some of the minds of the mailing list for advice. Any ideas or code would be greatly appreciated. -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
Jeremy Privett wrote: I'm looking for a method that would be able to extract the user's true document root (e.g. /home/jeremy/public_html/) so that I can use it for some filesystem scanning functions. I'm trying to avoid hard-coding supported document roots in favor of being able to dynamically detect it, but nothing is coming to mind. I thought I would consult some of the minds of the mailing list for advice. Any ideas or code would be greatly appreciated. You can try with __FILE__ quote from=http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php; The full path and filename of the file. If used inside an include, the name of the included file is returned. Since PHP 4.0.2, __FILE__ always contains an absolute path whereas in older versions it contained relative path under some circumstances. /quote and then use 'dirname()' http://php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php Ciao! Silvio -- tradeOver | http://www.tradeover.net ...ready to become the King of the World? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the DOCUMENT_ROOT server variable (available to php/perl in the standard methods for getting these) will give you the server's document root. in php, look at the output of: phpinfo() Original Message Date: Thursday, February 02, 2006 07:14:22 AM -0600 From: Jeremy Privett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Getting The Document Root I'm looking for a method that would be able to extract the user's true document root (e.g. /home/jeremy/public_html/) so that I can use it for some filesystem scanning functions. I'm trying to avoid hard-coding supported document roots in favor of being able to dynamically detect it, but nothing is coming to mind. I thought I would consult some of the minds of the mailing list for advice. Any ideas or code would be greatly appreciated. -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- End Original Message -- No, what I'm looking for is the root of the document root, if that makes any sense. -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
Jeremy Privett wrote: No, what I'm looking for is the root of the document root, if that makes any sense. not at all ^_^ -- Smileys rule (cX.x)C --o(^_^o) Dance for me! ^(^_^)o (o^_^)o o(^_^)^ o(^_^o) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
No, what I'm looking for is the root of the document root, if that makes any sense. How about $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
George Pitcher wrote: Jeremy, I think I lead you down the wrong path with my last reply. have a look at $_ENV['ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED'] which, on my WinXP Apache2 box gives 'C:\Apache\Apache2\htdocs\testsite\phpinfo.php'. Is that what you are after? George I think my original message may have been confusing. I'll give a better example: I have a path: /home/jeremy/public_html/test/test.php What I want off of the path is just the root of the user's document root (e.g. where he stores all his publically viewable files): /home/jeremy/public_html/ Now, the document root can vary from server to server ... Like /var/www/ or /home/jeremy/www/ or whatever. So, I'd like to know if there was a way to dynamically fetch it, instead of putting together a list of the known document roots (hard-coding supported ones). I hope that makes more sense! -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
Jeremy Privett wrote: George Pitcher wrote: Jeremy, I think I lead you down the wrong path with my last reply. have a look at $_ENV['ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED'] which, on my WinXP Apache2 box gives 'C:\Apache\Apache2\htdocs\testsite\phpinfo.php'. Is that what you are after? George I think my original message may have been confusing. I'll give a better example: I have a path: /home/jeremy/public_html/test/test.php What I want off of the path is just the root of the user's document root (e.g. where he stores all his publically viewable files): /home/jeremy/public_html/ Now, the document root can vary from server to server ... Like /var/www/ or /home/jeremy/www/ or whatever. So, I'd like to know if there was a way to dynamically fetch it, instead of putting together a list of the known document roots (hard-coding supported ones). I hope that makes more sense! $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
John Nichel wrote: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server Nope. I've already tried that... $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] contains /home/jeremy/public_html/test/ ... All I want is to the public_html part. -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
you could try pathinfo() http://us3.php.net/pathinfo On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Jeremy Privett wrote: John Nichel wrote: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] http://www.php.net/manual/en/ reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server Nope. I've already tried that... $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] contains /home/jeremy/public_html/test/ ... All I want is to the public_html part. -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
Jeremy Privett wrote: John Nichel wrote: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server Nope. I've already tried that... $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] contains /home/jeremy/public_html/test/ ... All I want is to the public_html part. 'DOCUMET_ROOT' will return what the web server's document root is, no matter what directory on that web server the script is run. ie, I'm running apache, look here http://www.nichel.net/docroot.php http://www.nichel.net/test/docroot.php http://www.nichel.net/bob/docroot.php http://www.nichel.net/bob/fred/docroot.php All four of those 'docroot.php' scripts are the same: ?php echo ( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ); ? But they're in four different directories. Document root is just that, it's the directory where Apache (or other web servers) start serving files from for the particular domain. Either you're webserver is seriously hosed (I can't even imagine how), or document root is not what you're thinking it is. If you place a script three levels below the 'test' directory which echo's out document root, what's the output? -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
John Nichel wrote: Jeremy Privett wrote: John Nichel wrote: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server Nope. I've already tried that... $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] contains /home/jeremy/public_html/test/ ... All I want is to the public_html part. 'DOCUMET_ROOT' will return what the web server's document root is, no matter what directory on that web server the script is run. ie, I'm running apache, look here http://www.nichel.net/docroot.php http://www.nichel.net/test/docroot.php http://www.nichel.net/bob/docroot.php http://www.nichel.net/bob/fred/docroot.php All four of those 'docroot.php' scripts are the same: ?php echo ( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ); ? But they're in four different directories. Document root is just that, it's the directory where Apache (or other web servers) start serving files from for the particular domain. Either you're webserver is seriously hosed (I can't even imagine how), or document root is not what you're thinking it is. If you place a script three levels below the 'test' directory which echo's out document root, what's the output? Aha. So that DOES work. I see what the problem is now. I'm testing off of a sub-domain, so the document root is the root for that sub-domain. That's why it was tripping me up. Thanks guys, that did the trick! :-) -- Jeremy Privett [ http://www.jeremyprivett.com ] Founder - Lead Software Developer - Hosting Systems Administrator Omega Vortex (http://www.omegavortex.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
I think my original message may have been confusing. I'll give a better example: I have a path: /home/jeremy/public_html/test/test.php What I want off of the path is just the root of the user's document root (e.g. where he stores all his publically viewable files): /home/jeremy/public_html/ Now, the document root can vary from server to server ... Like /var/www/ or /home/jeremy/www/ or whatever. So, I'd like to know if there was a way to dynamically fetch it, instead of putting together a list of the known document roots (hard-coding supported ones). I hope that makes more sense! Try this: echo(pre); print_r($_SERVER); echo(/pre); Maybe you'll find something there. tedd -- http://sperling.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
On Thu, February 2, 2006 7:14 am, Jeremy Privett wrote: I'm looking for a method that would be able to extract the user's true document root (e.g. /home/jeremy/public_html/) so that I can use it for some filesystem scanning functions. I'm trying to avoid hard-coding supported document roots in favor of being able to dynamically detect it, but nothing is coming to mind. I thought I would consult some of the minds of the mailing list for advice. Any ideas or code would be greatly appreciated. What you want is in the output from: ?php phpinfo();? Just search for the directory on your site that you know is correct, and figure out which variables you need to get that. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Getting The Document Root
On Thu, February 2, 2006 9:59 am, Jeremy Privett wrote: John Nichel wrote: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server Nope. I've already tried that... $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] contains /home/jeremy/public_html/test/ ... All I want is to the public_html part. dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) http://php.net/dirname Though, really, you're not making any sense at all... Whatever it is you are trying to do, you're probably doing it wrong... That said, again, if the value you want isn't in, or derivable from, phpinfo() then you probably can't get it... If you always want one directory *above* DOCUMENT_ROOT, dirname is your answer. If that's not what you want, then I doubt anybody will understand what you want from what's posted so far. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
