How to get the absolute path to the public html folder

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SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     returns   usr local apache htdocs    is there a way to get   home user public html    The problem is that I have to write a script which can be in the public html folder or a sub-folder of the public html folder  The script should save uploaded files into a folder inside public html directory say images   In other words let us say that my file is test php and the path to it is    home user public html test test php     And there is a folder    home user public html images    where files uploaded via test php have to be saved  I don t know where the test php file will be run  For example it can be at the path    home user public html test another-dir test php   How do I get the path to the images folder without knowing where the test php file will be

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You just need to create an offset bypass to how far you want the backwards reading to go  So  we use getcwd   to get the path and explode  split into array  to fetch the data between  root and the ending of the path  function getRoot  root    quot public html quot         return explode  root  getcwd    0   root  quot   quot

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Out of curiosity  why don t you just use the url for the said folder   http   www mysite com images  Assuming that the folder never changes location  that would be the easiest way to do it

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put anyfile on the directories you wanted to find  in this case  place  root  at public html   home user public html root  lt - note that  root  is not a folder  you can use root txt if u want    And use this function  function findThis  get        d           for  i   0   i  lt  20   i      this will try 20 times recursively on upper folder         if file exists  d  get                return  d           else               d                             and get the value by calling it   pathToRoot   findThis  root      And it will return  for example the the dir of php script is   home user public html test another-dir test php   so the  pathToRoot will be   pathToRoot   gt                Is this the one you want

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something I found today  after reading this question and continuing on my googlesurf   https   docs joomla org How to find your absolute path   lt  php  path   getcwd    echo  This Is Your Absolute Path     echo  path    gt    works for me

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Where is the file that you re running   If it is in your public html folder  you can do echo dirname   FILE

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You can also use dirname in dirname to get to where you want to be   Example of usage   For Joomla  modules will always be installed in  public html modules mod modulename   So  from within a file within the module s folder  to get to the Joomla install-root on any server   I could use   path   dirname dirname dirname   FILE        The same goes for Wordpress  where plugins are always in wp-content plugins   Hope this helps someone

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lt  php         Get absolute path      path   getcwd        home user public html test test php           path   substr  path  0  strpos  path   public html           root    path    public html         echo  root     This will output  home user public html

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This is super old  but I came across it and this worked for me     lt  php   Get absolute path  path   getcwd      strip the path at your root dir name and everything that follows it  path   substr  path  0  strpos  path   root     echo  This Is Your Absolute Path     echo  path    This will output  home public html    gt

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Let s asume that show images php is in folder images and the site root is public html  so   echo dirname   DIR        prints   home public html   echo dirname   FILE        prints   home public html images

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with preg replace function to find absolute path from   FILE   you can easily find with anything home user  Here short my code        path image you want   preg replace    public html                    public html  1 images     FILE

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Whenever you want any sort of configuration information you can use phpinfo

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