absolute path of an included file

[giannitom]

Hi all,
is there a way for an included file to know its own absolute path?

i.e.:
"main.php" located in "C:\" include a file named "inc.php" located in "C:\include"
In "inc.php" I need to build a string like this: "C:\include\inc.php"

[Mordecai]

Try: dirname($SERVER['PHP_SELF']).$SERVER['PHP_SELF']

[giannitom]

🙁 it doesn't work
in the previous example your code return: "C:\main.php"

[Mordecai]

I don't think there's a way to get the name of the include. Here's what I tried:
I made a file, info.php, with the line <?php phpinfo(); ?>.
I made another file, test.php, with the line <?php include("info.php"); ?>.

Since it prints out all server variables used, I searched for the include's name, info.php. There are no results, however.

This leads me to believe there isn't a way. It might be different if you attempt to echo FROM the include, though.

[giannitom]

thanks a lot