On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:08:15 -0500, Marcus wrote:

> I am trying to auto-detect what folder a file is sitting in and based upon
> this info, query a MySQL database to get further information. I have been
> all over php.net and been through numerous examples, but I can't get my
> script to do exactly what I want...
>
> An example given on php.net regarding dirname() is as follows:
>
>
> dirname can be used to create self referencing web scripts with the
> following one liner.
>
> $base_url = str_replace($DOCUMENT_ROOT, "", dirname($PHP_SELF));
>
> Using this method on a file such as:
>
> /home/mysite/public_html/wherever/whatever.php
>
> will return:
>
> /wherever
>
>
> This code could very well be right, but it's not working on my localhost
> or on my live server... instead of returning only the folder in question,
> it returns the full path to the file. Going with the above example, if
> "home" were specified as the server, it would return
> /mysite/public_html/wherever instead of simply "wherever". I have also
> tried echoing $DOCUMENT_ROOT and $PHP_SELF to see exactly what I have to
> work with and trying to manipulate these values, but I can't seem to make
> it work with other methods I have tried either. Thanks very much in
> advance for any help anyone can provide.
>
> Marcus
Have you tried setting
$DOCUMENT_ROOT = "/home/mysite/public_html"
before that bit of code you have?
Then it will change /home/mysite/public_html/ with nothing, so you'd have
/wherever in this example, but when trying on a file like
/home/mysite/public_html/wherever/whatever/myfile.php you'd get
/wherever/whatever

If you'd only want /whatever in that case, you could use some
stringfunctions to cut of everyting before the last / then you'd have
/whatever

.... hope this helps