Get folder up one level

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I am using this   echo dirname   FILE       which gives   C  UwAmp www myfolder admin   However I am looking for path until   C  UwAmp www myfolder    from current script  How can that be done

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Also you can use  dirname   DIR     level   for access any folding level without traversing

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echo dirname   DIR       But note the   DIR   constant was added in PHP 5 3 0

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You could do either   dirname   DIR       Or     DIR                 but in a web server environment you will probably find that you are already working from current file s working directory  so you can probably just use              to reference the directory above  You can replace   DIR   with dirname   FILE    before PHP 5 3 0   You should also be aware what   DIR   and   FILE   refers to      The full path and filename of the file  If used inside an include  the name of the included file is returned    So it may not always point to where you want it to

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The parent directory of an included file would be  dirname getcwd      e g  the file is   var www html folder inc file inc php which is included in   var www html folder index php  then by calling  file index php  getcwd   is  var www html folder     DIR   is  var www html folder inc   so dirname   DIR    is  var www html folder   but what we want is  var www html which is dirname getcwd

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You can try  echo realpath   DIR     DIRECTORY SEPARATOR

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To Whom  deailing with share hosting environment and still chance to have Current PHP less than 7 0 Who does not have dirname    FILE    2    it is possible to use following   function dirname safe  path   level   0        dir   explode DIRECTORY SEPARATOR   path        level    level   -1      if  level    0   level   count  dir       array splice  dir   level       return implode  dir  DIRECTORY SEPARATOR  DIRECTORY SEPARATOR     print r dirname safe   DIR    2

[php] Get folder up one level

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