Trailing / Nubie question

[JamesBrown]

When I run:

$ip = getenv('Document_root');
echo ("Document_root is:" .$ip);

on my local machine apache server I get:
Document_root is:C:/UwAmp/www/

on my ISP server I get:
Document_root is:/services/webpages/s/e/seti.net/public

Why is the "/" missing?

[dagon]

windows vs linux issue.
also, its usual to use the $_SERVER vars rather than getenv()

[JamesBrown]

I expected that would be the problem. Let me tell you what I am tring to do so you can suggest a better way of doing it.

I want to have a directory on my local machine and on the ISP machine that has all the PHP files that in need to include from other areas. Of course they are on different directories on the two machines. So I thought I would use getenv('Document_root') to find the base directory and then add /PHPInc or something to define the directory of the files to include.

The problem is the "/" missing on the Unix machine.

What is the normal place to put your files that need to be included from any other directory?
Regards...... Jim

P.S. I guess this should be in the Nubie directory but I didn't see it (because I'm a nubie).

[Keepanitreel]

JamesBrown;10981179 wrote:

When I run:

$ip = getenv('Document_root');
echo ("Document_root is:" .$ip);

on my local machine apache server I get:
Document_root is:C:/UwAmp/www/

on my ISP server I get:
Document_root is:/services/webpages/s/e/seti.net/public

Why is the "/" missing?

Use realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

[JamesBrown]

Thanks - that's the one I was looking for.

[Keepanitreel]

JamesBrown;10981188 wrote:

Thanks - that's the one I was looking for.

Happy to help