Referencing a parent directory name ---- NEED HELP!!

[kevinn]

The following is a settings.php file that controls which images go where on an index page and in a gallery page.  I would like to have the word "bunnies" be a string or function that references the parent directory at that location rather than be a specified name.  That way when I create a new directory full of dogs, or cats or people, I don't have to come into this file to change it.  How can I reference that portion of the directory path?

$sitetitle = "Bunnies Sept 2006";

$directory = "/home/localsite/public_html/membersarea/2/abc/bunnies/gallery1/photos/thumbs/Set1/";

$urltothumb = "http://www.localsite.com/membersarea/2/abc/bunnies/gallery1/photos/thumbs/Set1/";

$urltosmall = "http://www.localsite.com/membersarea/2/abc/bunnies/gallery1/photos/small/Set1/";

$urltomedium = "http://www.localsite.com/membersarea/2/abc/bunnies/gallery1/photos/medium/Set1/";

$urltolarge = "http://www.localsite.com/membersarea/2/abc/bunnies/gallery1/photos/large/Set1/";

?>

[taith]

./ <-- current directory
../ <-- parent directory

[psychohagis]

im not quite sure what ur asking above, but to access your root folder you have to put [b]../ [/b] at the beggining

so if you had a folder one down from your root called dogs, then u'd put [b]../dogs/[/b]

[kevinn]

yeah.. I know about the ../ part

I need /dogs or /bunnies to be a function that references a parent directory name... so technically the membersarea/2/abc/xxxxxx/gallery1  xxxxxxx will change and the file needs to know what that name is.  I want it to reference a directory name that is 2 parent steps up.  I tried

$directory = "/home/localsite/public_html/membersarea/2/abc/" + ../../ + "photos/thumbs/Set1" but that doesn't do anything

Also tried

$directory = "/home/localsite/public_html/membersarea/2/abc/" + ../../ + getcwd + "photos/thumbs/Set1" but that doesn't do anything

does that help explain it a little better?

[taith]

$directory = "../../photos/thumbs/Set1/";

../ and ./ are for relative path, not full

[kevinn]

My bad.... I should have realized that.... such a simple fix.

Ok.. second question.  Any way to have the $sitetitle function recognize that directory name so I don't have to go in and change it?

[taith]

if i knew what the $sitetitle function is... probably not... it'd take alot of code for a function to automatically switch from full path to relative path with 100% accuracy... twood be quicker to just change it manually from your database... i'm sure i could make one to switch from full to relative path... but tha'd prolly take a while lol

[kevinn]

$sitetitle is at the top of the code I listed at the very beginning.  I agree it would be easy to just change it, but then again programming is so I can be lazy right? LOL

perhaps a change directory function (using a relative path.... I always go up two directories from this location... I would rather go up two directories than define a root folder and go from there... the path from the root may have an extra level at times) then a getcwd following that?