*cringe* No, document root is a defined directory, not an attribute of a specific file. It is used to map the root URL to a directory on the filesystem.
For example, when you request http://www.google.com/, that final slash in the URL is the resource you are requesting. In this case, it is the root URL for that domain, and everything branches off from that hierarchically. Document root is the filesystem directory that is equivalent to the root URL and is used by the Web server to locate the requested resource. Thus, everything within this directory is (potentially, depending on permissions) accessible via a URL. For example, if the document root for Google were /usr/local/apache/htdocs/, then the URL http://www.google.com/foo/bar/blah.php would be equivalent to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/foo/bar/blah.php on the filesystem. Hope that clarifies. Chris John W. Holmes wrote: >You want DOCUMENT_ROOT. If you have a file > >/home/groups/myproject/htdocs/file.php > >then, from within that file.php, DOCUMENT_ROOT is > >/home/groups/myproject/htdocs/ > >I think it would be $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] in newer versions of PHP. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
