[RESOLVED] Get Path Info Question

[sherry]

Hello.

What is a good way to get (read into a variable) the path name one (1) level up from $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] which is outside of the 'www' directory without changing to that directory?

Thanks.

[bradgrafelman]

Use [man]realpath/man on a path including '../' (indicating 'parent directory,' of course) appended to the end of the path in question.

[sherry]

Thanks for your reply, bradgrafelman.

For whatever reason, I was not able to get realpath() to return the path one level up from $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] using $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] stored in a variable appended to '..'.

I then tried pathinfo() using $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] stored in a variable and was able to get the info from the first array element 'dirname'.

Thanks for the info which led me to pathinfo().

[bradgrafelman]

Either way, don't forget to mark this thread resolved.

As an example, however, this worked as expected for me:

echo realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/..');

output was 'D:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2' (which is as expected, since my document root is located at 'D:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs').

[sherry]

Thanks bradgrafelman.

I see I had a mistake in the argument. Thanks for the exact syntax to compare.

I will mark this thread 'Resolved.'

Thanks again.