how to get website root folder for include

[priyankabhar]

Hi,

 

I am building a website in my localhost using WAMP. I have few folder down the main project folder. And now, I have to include a file from another folder which is 2 steps higher.

I used

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

to get the website root folder. However, I only get

C:/wamp/www/

. I need to get

C:/wamp/www/mywebsitefolder

. How do I get this so that I can include a file from the

mywebsitefolder

folder and from

mywebsitefolder/recipes

folder. I want to use absolute paths to avoid rewriting every time I change the directory structure.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. It seems

include 

does not allow urls to be used and needs file paths.

 

Thanks a lot!

Priya

[trq]

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/mywebsitefolder'

[Christian F.]

I think that you might want to use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] instead of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to get the correct path. Note that you'll have to use dirname () or pathinfo () to strip the filename component.