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@NogDogOct 21.2011 — #It's both a curse and a blessing: PHP has functions, constants, and variables for all sorts of things, but unless you have a photographic memory, you'll probably never memorize all of them. @NogDogOct 22.2011 — #You can probably use a relative path, too, e.g.:
But that can be a maintenance headache if you decide to move the calling file, or cut-and-paste the code to another file, or use it from an include; so I generally prefer either the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] technique, or defining some sort of base application path constant in a common config/include file or such, so that you never have to worry about where you are in the directory tree at any given moment -- you just need to know where the directory/file is that you want to reference.
[RESOLVED] scandir() won’t accept my path?
I am trying to use scandir to list the contents of a folder somewhere else on the server.
The only way that I have been able to get this to work is with an absolute path from the linux root ie: /mnt/path/to/folder
I want to be able to use a path starting from the root of my domain name ie:
/directory_containing_index.php/otherfolder/otherfolder
so that the script will easily be able to be moved or used on any website any where without manual modification of the script.
Does anyone know what I need to do to get this to work?
I can provide my script if that helps. I figured it wasn’t necessary though.
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@NogDogOct 22.2011 — #You can probably use a relative path, too, e.g.:[code=php]
scandir("../../up_2_levels/foo/bar.txt")
[/code]But that can be a maintenance headache if you decide to move the calling file, or cut-and-paste the code to another file, or use it from an include; so I generally prefer either the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] technique, or defining some sort of base application path constant in a common config/include file or such, so that you never have to worry about where you are in the directory tree at any given moment -- you just need to know where the directory/file is that you want to reference.