absolute to relative path

[fksbuffalo]

I have the path to an image stored in my database like this...

 

/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/vieleRETS-1.1/j_image/20903057_1.jpg

 

How do I get this image to display?

 

[ram4nd]

<img src="vieleRETS-1.1/j_image/20903057_1.jpg" />

or(probably the first one)

<img src="httpdocs/vieleRETS-1.1/j_image/20903057_1.jpg" />

[fksbuffalo]

Sorry I should have explained better. I need this to be done automatically. I'm basically pulling random image paths from the database and need to display them.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

If the document root portion is the same in all the entries, you can just do a simple string replace to remove it before you output it in the html.

[fksbuffalo]

If the document root portion is the same in all the entries, you can just do a simple string replace to remove it before you output it in the html.

 

That sounds good. How do I do it?

[gizmola]

Answer depends on what the document root for your site is. You can get this from apache, via the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable.  Needless to say, if your site ever gets moved around, then this will all break -- so perhaps it would be good to fix up your application so that it no longer stores the absolute path to these images.  Such a fix could be easily done against the database with a single update statement that would remove the portion which currently includes the Document root portion.

 

In the short term however, you could fix up the paths using this simple code:

 

// assumes that $imgpath has the retrieved path to the image from the db

echo '';