PHP - Convert File system path to URL

Question

I often find that I have files in my projects that need to be accessed from the file system as well as the users browser. One example is uploading photos. I need access to t

Answer 1

Assume the directory is /path/to/root/document_root/user/file and the address is site.com/user/file

The first function I am showing will get the current file's name relative to the World Wide Web Address.

$path = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

and would result in:

site.com/user/file

The second function strips the given path of the document root.

$path = str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '', $path)

Given I passed in /path/to/root/document_root/user/file, I would get

/user/file