Base Directory?!

Posted on March 15th, 2007 in Coding by abdallah

For a while now I used something like the following to get a good include() path for my PHP code.

[ php Code ]
  1. if (!defined("BASE_PATH")) define(‘BASE_PATH’, $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].‘/mrp’));
  2. require_once(BASE_PATH."/config/cn.php");

However, I was hit with the realization that it won’t work with my new Apache setup, which goes something like the following:

[ conf Code ]
  2. ServerRoot "X:/home/abdallah/xampplite/apache"
  3. DocumentRoot "X:/home/abdallah/xampplite/htdocs"
  4. <ifmodule>
  5.      Alias /mrp "X:varwwwmanufac"
  6. </ifmodule>
  7. <directory>
  8.     AllowOverride None
  9.     Options all
  10.     Order allow,deny
  11.     Allow from all
  12. </directory>

So, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] no longer works!
Instead I’ve reverted to something like the following:

[ php Code ]
  1. if (!defined("BASE_PATH")) define(‘BASE_PATH’, substr(dirname(__FILE__), 0, strpos(dirname(__FILE__), ‘mrp’)+3));

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