How do I get the project basepath in CodeIgniter

Question

I have created a folder as user in the root directory.

My project base path is:

/var/www/myproject/

When I want to access the base

Answer 1

use base_url()

echo $baseurl=base_url();

if you need to pass url to a function then use site_url()

 echo site_url('controller/function');

if you need the root path then FCPATH..

echo FCPATH;