Posted by Chuck Anderson on 06/05/05 22:02

Daniel Loose wrote:

>Hello,
>
>in order to use my scripts developed at home directly after upload, I
>wish to define a variable $root at begin of each script in a way that
>it always - be it here at home or on any other computer - contains the
>correct path to the web docs directory. How shall I do that the best
>way? (At least, how do I get the local IP or hostname? Or is there an
>environment variable?) Grepped 4 thick books but nothing found...
>
>TIA, Daniel
>
>
If I understand you right, .... what I do is look at the SERVER variable
HTTP_HOST.

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'localhost')
{
// the script is running on my home computer and not on the remote server
}
else
{
// $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] contains the domain name where my script is running
}

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