Finding Your Absolute Path

Many tutorials related to php will need to know the path your server uses to get to a specific location.

This little code will help you figure out the path of any directory.

Save the following as absolute_path.php (or anything you want actually as long as it has a .php extention).

Then upload it to whatever directory you want to know the path of, and view the file in your browser using the url.

For example:
If you upload your file to /folder1/
You can view the file like so: http://www.yourdomain.com/folder1/absolute_path.php
And the file will output the following: Path to this file: /home/username/public_html/folder1

<?php $absolute_path = pathinfo($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']); echo 'Path to this file: '.$absolute_path['dirname'].""; ?>

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