Get parent directory of running script

by

If your script is located in /var/www/dir/index.php then the following would return:

dirname(__FILE__); // /var/www/dir

or

dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ); // /var/www

Edit

This is a technique used in many frameworks to determine relative paths from the app_root.

File structure:

 /var/
      www/
          index.php
          subdir/
                 library.php

index.php is my dispatcher/boostrap file that all requests are routed to:

define(ROOT_PATH, dirname(__FILE__) ); // /var/www

library.php is some file located an extra directory down and I need to determine the path relative to the app root (/var/www/).

$path_current = dirname( __FILE__ ); // /var/www/subdir
$path_relative = str_replace(ROOT_PATH, '', $path_current); // /subdir

There’s probably a better way to calculate the relative path then str_replace() but you get the idea.

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