Posted by Alan Little on 05/11/06 14:13

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Alan
Little of comp.lang.php make plain:

> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
> Tim Van Wassenhove of comp.lang.php make plain:
>
>> On 2006-05-10, Alan Little <alan@n-o-s-p-a-m-phorm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I love the __FILE__ constant; it's been enormously useful. Is there
>>> a constant that would be the equivalent of $PHP_SELF?
>>
>> Why would you want the value? I still have to see my first good
>> reason to use it ;)
>
> It allows a script to find out where it's installed (which can also be
> done with __FILE__ of course),

Actually, I misspoke. $PHP_SELF gives the URL path; __FILE__ gives the
filesystem path. So, the path info of $PHP_SELF can be useful, as well.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

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