How can I find an application's base url?

Question

I\'d like to find the base url of my application, so I can automatically reference other files in my application tree...

So given a file config.php in the base of my

Answer 1

I've never found a way to make it so.

I always end up setting a config variable with the server path to one level above web root. Then it's:

• $configVar . 'public/whatever/' for stuff inside root,
• but you can also include from outside with $configVar . 'phpInc/db.inc.php/' etc.