How to get the absolute path to the public_html folder?

Question

$_SERVER[\'DOCUMENT_ROOT\']

returns

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/

is there a way to get

/home/us         


        

Answer 1

You can also use dirname in dirname to get to where you want to be.

Example of usage:

For Joomla, modules will always be installed in /public_html/modules/mod_modulename/

So, from within a file within the module's folder, to get to the Joomla install-root on any server , I could use: $path = dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));

The same goes for Wordpress, where plugins are always in wp-content/plugins/

Hope this helps someone.