PHP - Question About Absolute Uri

Because I have include files in a subdirectory called "incl", I cannot rely on using relative paths because that include file is in a header on and the pages are in multiple subdirectories (or in the root).  I need some way to get the location of the root (the one where my index file is located).  I want to use something like this:

$path= $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
include $path."/subdirectory/file.php";

However, when I use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] I get :
/home/content/j/p/f/name55/html/

which is not where the index file sits.
Any ideas on how to get the directory where my index file sits? (i.e. the index that gets read when you got to www.domain.com)

In the file "secure/checkout.php" I have...

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<?php require_once "../config.inc.php"; ?>
which is Relative.


Can I use an Absolute Path instead??


Debbie

For the includes I use the following:

 include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/cms/includes/connection.php");

And for these following examples I use "http://localhost/":

<img class="header_image" src="http://localhost/cms/assets/image/capture.png" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/cms/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/cms/assets/style.css" />

With these examples I use "http://localhost/" because "$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']" is not working with these above.   My Question: Is there a function I could be using and replace it with "http://localhost/"?   I am looking to have it like following: When I upload the web app onto the web server it still should be working out.     EDIT:   "Un-linking" those links which happen did not work.
Edited by glassfish, 29 October 2014 - 06:46 AM.

This topic has been moved to CSS Help.

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Hey,
Im wondering how I go about creating a directory path to an image folder that can be opened from any folder inside my root web directory www/WEBROOT/IMAGES/SHOP/image.jpg

When i add an absolute path to the images url in the database when its gets executed it will run the the path from the current folder. I was wondering how to make its always start looking for files from the root directory down instead of the current location. The reason im asking this is that i was to be able to open those images from seperate locations inside my website.

Thanks

I found one post that related to this topic but I want to make sure I understand. If I have a site with the structu

/root/
____pageone.php
____common/
___________base.php
___________header.php
____inc/
______constants.inc.php
____admin/
_________login.php

and base.php includes:
<?php
// Include site constants
include_once "../inc/constants.inc.php";
?>
and login.php includes:
<?php
include_once "../common/base.php";
$pageTitle = "Log in";
include_once "../common/header.php";
?>
and pageone.php includes:
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<?php
include_once "common/base.php";
$pageTitle = "Page One";
include_once "common/header.php";
?>the login page loads normally, but pageone.php is broken; I get error messages like
Quote

Warning: include_once(../inc/constants.inc.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/rootdirectory/common/base.php on line 10

.

From what I understand, PHP doesn't want to include the same files from different relative paths; you either need to use absolute paths or change the directory structure so that the included files are accessed through the exact same relative path. Is this correct? I find that if I move pageone.php to the admin folder and make the relative path the same, it does work.

I have to say, I'm leery of using absolute paths; and if I'm understanding this correctly, you're really constrained on how you set up your directory structure. Comments?

How does one get the absolute filepath of this:   $_FILES["myfile"]["name"]   On a web-server?   Currently I'm feeding my image as a resource into imagejpg. http://php.net/manua...n.imagejpeg.php   However, I need to get the file-path so I can send them to an S3 bucket.   Thanks for any help!
Edited by arbitrageur, 02 November 2014 - 09:35 PM.

due to mod_rewrite flaws, i have to give everything an absolute path. somehow though, the stylesheet's absolute path wont work. heres the code:

<link href="C:/xampp/htdocs/lso/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

the stylesheet is in the lso folder, yet somehow this wont work and no styles are loaded!

I'm working on an email template system where my client will go to a page and copy & paste the source code into their crm system.

I'm trying to find a way to automatically replace the image path without the use of echo if possible.

I've figured this out already with this script:

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<?
function GetFileDir($php_self){
$filename = explode("/", $php_self); // THIS WILL BREAK DOWN THE PATH INTO AN ARRAY
for( $i = 0; $i < (count($filename) - 1); ++$i ) {
$filename2 .= $filename[$i].'/';
}
return $filename2;
}
?>
But I don't wanna have to go in and put Code: [Select]
<?php echo GetFileDir("http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?> before all the image paths.

So basically anywhere that src="images/whatever.jpg" is listed it will replace "images/" with "http://www.mydomain.com/images/whatever.jpg"

is it possible to do this without having to place code before "images" ?

Given a directory - folder1/subfolder1, I would like to loop through all subdirectories under the given directory and return the file path relative to the given directory.

Example:
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Given Directory
    FolderA
    FolderB
        SubFolderA
        SubFolderB
             SubSubFolderA
                  File1
    FolderC

the file path for File1 should be FolderB/SubFolderB/SubSubFolderA/

Any ideas?

Could someone help an absolute beginner? I've been searching for hours and can't figure it out.

I have an array and I would like to position each of the variables in various positions around a page.
I have a div tag with an absolute position statement, how would I wrap it around the one variable below..."$name" ?
I actually have several variables in the array. I've reduced it to one for simplicity.

Thanks so much for any help.



<?php
$query = "select * from todolist where id='$id'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
extract($row);


echo "$name";       //this is the element that I want to position


?>


I had envisioned that it would be something like this....


'<div id="position1">' echo "$name" '</div>'; 



But yea, that doesn't work.

PHP 5.3 on Windows 7 running IIS 7

Hey... when using:
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$dom = DOMDocument::load( 'p:\\WebTest\\test1.xml' );where P:\ is a mapped drive, I'm getting:
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Warning: DOMDocument::load(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity "file:///p:/WebTest/test1.xml" in ...
I've also tried using / instead of \\. If it's on c:\, it works fine, but I can't get the absolute path to work to a mapped drive.

If I use \\\ip\\folder\\file (or //ip/folder/file) the page never loads.

Any thoughts on getting DOMDocument to look at a shared network location on Windows?

Thanks!

well good moring dear folks - hope you are all right and everythings is fine across the atlantic

today i have a  question regarding server-paths - and the absolute and relative in a linux-[opensuse 11.4] lampp-system
well i just installed something in to my Lampp on openSuse  11.4

while setting up  this application - (it is a joomla 1.7.3 ) i wonder how i name the paths


   public $unicodeslugs = '0';
   public $feed_limit = '10';
   public $log_path = 'D:\\Xammp\\xampp\\htdocs\\pre1/logs';
   public $tmp_path = 'D:\\Xammp\\xampp\\htdocs\\pre1/tmp';
   public $lifetime = '15';
   public $session_handler = 'database';



what cou you thinks how shoud i name the paths
well you see above this was a windows box where the pahts originally were taken from

love to hear from you

I was wondering of it was possible to have a file say style.css in the root folder of a site like www.example.com/style.css and then get a subdomain called www.sub.example.com which points to www.example.com/subarea to get that file without the use of absolute paths?

Sorry if its not clear.

when in a form, I wish to build a conditional that if the response to a radio button is a value of 2 (female), it will display an input requesting for users maiden name. If not 2 goes to the next input statement.

Here is code I was experimenting with:


<html>
<body>
<form action="" name="test"  method='POST'>
<input type="radio" id="sex" value=1 checked><label>Male</label>
<input type="radio" id="sex" value=2><label>Femaleale</label>

    <?php
    $result = "value";
    if ($result == 2)
        echo "<input type='int' id='gradYear' size='3' required>";
        else
        echo "Not a female!"
    ?>

    <input type="submit" value="GO">
</form>
</body>
</html>


The code passes debug, however, Not a Female is displayed.

My question is - Can I do this and if so, what value do I test against id='sex' or value. I tried each one but gave the same results. I realize that $_POST[sex] would be used after the submit button is clicked. But this has me stumped.

Thanks for the assis in advance.