Server Variables

[furious5]

I am just playing around with a file upload script, and need to know the location of the file in the overall filesystem on the server e.g /usr/local/apache/htdocs/upload

I had a quick look in one of my PHP books and I could only find a reference to PATH_INFO?

Is this the right function to be using? Any code snippets?

[stolzyboy]

straight from the manual

<?php

$path_parts = pathinfo("/www/htdocs/index.html");

echo $path_parts["dirname"] . "\n";
echo $path_parts["basename"] . "\n";
echo $path_parts["extension"] . "\n";

?>

Would produce:

/www/htdocs
index.html
html

[furious5]

Erm, I don't think PATH_INFO will do what I want then.

I want the Physical Path of the directory on the server. Do you know the function for this?

[tbach2]

I have found one of the pages of the manual that I use most is the part which explains predefined variables . Click on $_SERVER and you'll find what you're looking for.