Re: Document root, preferred way to find it???

From:	Al	Date:	Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:54:48 +0000
Subject:	Re: Document root, preferred way to find it???
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Tom Rogers wrote:

Hi, Thursday, March 3, 2005, 5:21:58 AM, you wrote: A> I've been using in my scripts $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to find the base path A> for includes, etc. A> We just moved the site to a new virtual host and it doesn't work. print_r() A> gives me:
$_SERVER['document_root']= /usr/local/apache/htdocs $_SERVER['path_translated']= /home/user/public_html/
A> What do you guys use for you docroot? If path_translated exists use that as it indicates a virtual website, otherwise use document_root

If I'm reading you correctly, then a truly transportable include might look like this: $doc_root= (isset($_SERVER['path_translated'])? $_SERVER['path_translated'] :

    $_SERVER['document_root'];