Re: Finding out the local path to a file.

>I'm wondering if there's a way for PHP fo know the local path of >REQUEST_URI. I've used a script to list directories, in order to replace >the looks of the traditional Indexes look (apache). By setting >DirectoryIndex to a fixed file (/list/lister.php) that file is now >executed whenever there's no other indexfile in the folder. But how can I >let it know which folder to work in? Let's say that it gets >example.com/~simon/files/ as URL. All the local variables I've seen by >using phpinfo() point to the location of the file, not the folder I'm >requesting. I just this weekend finished working through that exact problem for http://onetwentyeight.com and http://video.teczno.com. In general, this will only work for situations where your script (lister.php) is in a directory directly above your URI. Your example is troublesome, because there isn't a way to precisely determine what filesystem directory /~simon/ maps to without parsing through your Apache config file, which I trust you don't want to do. If your DirectoryIndex lives someplace within the path of your REQUEST_URI, you can use that to determine where to chdir() to. Here's how I've been doing it: $ru = explode('/', trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/')); $sn = explode('/', trim($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '/')); $diff = array_diff($ru, $sn); foreach($diff as $d => $dir) $diff[$d] = rawurldecode($dir); if($diff) chdir(join('/', $diff)); --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html