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;

Answer 2

Obviously you mean the baseurl. If so:

base url: URL to your CodeIgniter root. Typically this will be your base URL, | WITH a trailing slash.

Root in codeigniter specifically means that the position where you can append your controller to your url.

For example, if the root is localhost/ci_installation/index.php/, then to access the mycont controller you should go to localhost/ci_installation/index.php/mycont.

So, instead of writing such a long link you can (after loading "url" helper) , replace the term localhost/ci_installation/index.php/ by base_url() and this function will return the same string url.

NOTE: if you hadn't appended index.php/ to your base_url in your config.php, then if you use base_url(), it will return something like that localhost/ci_installation/mycont. And that will not work, because you have to access your controllers from index.php, instead of that you can place a .htaccess file to your codeigniter installation position. Cope that the below code to it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /imguplod/index.php/$1 [L]

And it should work :)

Answer 3

Following are the build-in constants you can use as per your requirements for getting the paths in Codeigniter:

EXT: The PHP file extension

FCPATH: Path to the front controller (this file) (root of CI)

SELF: The name of THIS file (index.php)

BASEPATH: Path to the system folder

APPPATH: The path to the “application” folder

Thanks.

Answer 4

Change your default controller which is in config file.

i.e : config/routes.php

$route['default_controller'] = "Your controller name";

Hope this will help.

Answer 5

Use FCPATH instead of BASEPATH for more check this link.

Codeigniter - dynamically getting relative/absolute path outside of application folder

Answer 6

Codeigniter has a function that retrieves your base path which is:

FCPATH and BASEPATH i recommand use FCPATH.

for your base url use:

<?=base_url()?>

if your php short tag is off

<?php echo base_url(); ?>

for example: if you want to link you css files which is in your base path

<script src='<?=base_url()?>js/jquery.js' type='text/javascript' />