Posted by Al on 03/03/05 03:54

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'];

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