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stevenvh
stevenvh

Reputation: 3139

problem referencing file in PHP


I'm having some problems referencing a file on my website in a PHP script. Let's say the full path is 

www.mydomain.com/img/peggy.jpg

I can't use relative addressing like in 

../img/peggy.jpg

because the script is in an include file which is included in several files at different levels. 

/img/peggy.jpg

doesn't seem to work either. How do I reference to an absolute path?
TIA
Steven

Upvotes: 0

Views: 412

Answers (4)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 5526

You could define(BASE_PATH, dirname(__FILE__)) in your index.php.
Then use $fileName = BASE_PATH . "/img/peggy.jpg";

Upvotes: 1

stevenvh
stevenvh

Reputation: 3139

Solved by writing the full path explicitly: 

/home2/mydomain/public_html/img/peggy.jpg

Note to self: will have to edit this if I ever move to another hosting service. Even my current hosting service (Bluehost) may one day decide to rearrange its file structure.
Other solutions are still welcome!

Upvotes: 0

leepowers
leepowers

Reputation: 38308

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] points to the absolute path of the current web root.

Upvotes: 0

Evan Mulawski
Evan Mulawski

Reputation: 55334

You would have to use dirname(__FILE__) . "/img/peggy.jpg".

You can use multiple, as well: dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) ...

Upvotes: 0

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