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Hemaulo
Hemaulo

Reputation: 999

How do you define paths in application?

I'm using global constants, like this:

/project
    /application
        bootstrap.php
    /public
        index.php

index.php

bootstrap.php

Also i want to ask if there is better way to do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1204

Answers (3)

Marco Demaio
Marco Demaio

Reputation: 34407

According to your directory tree:

This is the one I would use to LOAD PHP script, basically you can place it in index.php or in bootstrap.php

define("PROJECT_DISK_PATH", str_replace('\\', '/', dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/');
/*
Server variables $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILE_NAME'] are both USELESS to 
accomplish this task because they both return the currently executed script and not this included file path.
*/

Then in your PHP script you do: 

include(PROJECT_DISK_PATH . 'path/to/your/script/somescript.php')

And these are the ones I would use to LOAD JS/CSS script IN PAGES:

define("PROJECT_DOCROOT_PATH", '/' . substr(PROJECT_DISK_PATH, strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/')));
define("PROJECT_HTTP_PATH", "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . JPL_DOCROOT_PATH);

So in your page you can do:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo PROJECT_DOCROOT_PATH; ?>path/to/your/script/somescript.js"></script>

Upvotes: 1

Your Common Sense
Your Common Sense

Reputation: 157864

I am going for absolute path when possible, using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
When impossible, I use relative paths, much like as Alix does.

Upvotes: -1

Alix Axel
Alix Axel

Reputation: 154543

You mean your application is not public? Anyway, normally I just define a ROOT constant in my front controller (usually index.php) like this:

define('ROOT', str_replace('\\', '/', __DIR__));

Or on older versions of PHP where __DIR__ is not available:

define('ROOT', str_replace('\\', '/', dirname(__FILE__)));

Since the inner structure never changes I just do something like:

include(ROOT . '/application/libraries/Email.php');

Instead of:

define('LIBRARY_PATH', ROOT . '/application/libraries');
include(LIBRARY_PATH . '/Email.php');

Less pollution. =)

Upvotes: 1

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