Posted by steve on 06/07/05 02:35

"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

I use php in web and batch mode, and some of the $_SERVER variables
don�t work in batch mode. I use getcwd
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.getcwd.php to look at the path,
and from that detect where the app is running.

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