CLI - Directory path from $_SERVER

I need the path of the script that is running. Unfortunately it is not in
the $_SERVER array when running a script through the CLI.

Through a browser I can strip the script name off, e.g
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] => "C:/Apache2/htdocs/test/filename.php"

However through the CLI the path doesn't appear in
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']. Only the script name.

Actually $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] and
$_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] all contain the same thing.. the name of the
scipt only.

I know that it's possible to execute external commands through the CLI, but
thats not portable.

I considered writing this up as a bug. But I thought I'd ask here first.
Maybe theres a setting in php.ini I'm missing.

btw I tested this on php 5.0 and 4.3.

Thanks,
Joel

Hi Joel,

Don't know if this helps, but it my PHP CGI/CLI I have been using the
following:

// Set the document root
if ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] == "") $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] =
getcwd()."/../";


getcwd() is portable and alway reports the location of the script being
executed - in my case it's alway in the cgi-bin directory. I cheat here by
assuming that the CGI-BIN directory is contained in the htdocs directory.
The way I will be getting around this is by saving user settings to an ini
file.


- CF



"chops" <joel700@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3fa8567d@news.comindico.com.au...
> I need the path of the script that is running. Unfortunately it is not in
> the $_SERVER array when running a script through the CLI.
>
> Through a browser I can strip the script name off, e.g
> $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] => "C:/Apache2/htdocs/test/filename.php"
>
> However through the CLI the path doesn't appear in
> $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']. Only the script name.
>
> Actually $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] and
> $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] all contain the same thing.. the name of the
> scipt only.
>
> I know that it's possible to execute external commands through the CLI,
but
> thats not portable.
>
> I considered writing this up as a bug. But I thought I'd ask here first.
> Maybe theres a setting in php.ini I'm missing.
>
> btw I tested this on php 5.0 and 4.3.
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
>

Oops, I missed that function in the manual :P
Thanks CF.

I'd still like to know why those 3 $_SERVER vars are all the same in the
CLI.


"ChronoFish" <deja@chronofish.com> wrote in message
news:L8_pb.1570$oB3.511@lakeread03...
> Hi Joel,
>
> Don't know if this helps, but it my PHP CGI/CLI I have been using the
> following:
>
> // Set the document root
> if ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] == "") $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] =
> getcwd()."/../";
>
>
> getcwd() is portable and alway reports the location of the script being
> executed - in my case it's alway in the cgi-bin directory. I cheat here
by
> assuming that the CGI-BIN directory is contained in the htdocs directory.
> The way I will be getting around this is by saving user settings to an ini
> file.
>
>
> - CF
>
>
>
> "chops" <joel700@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3fa8567d@news.comindico.com.au...
> > I need the path of the script that is running. Unfortunately it is not
in
> > the $_SERVER array when running a script through the CLI.
> >
> > Through a browser I can strip the script name off, e.g
> > $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] => "C:/Apache2/htdocs/test/filename.php"
> >
> > However through the CLI the path doesn't appear in
> > $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']. Only the script name.
> >
> > Actually $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] and
> > $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] all contain the same thing.. the name of the
> > scipt only.
> >
> > I know that it's possible to execute external commands through the CLI,
> but
> > thats not portable.
> >
> > I considered writing this up as a bug. But I thought I'd ask here first.
> > Maybe theres a setting in php.ini I'm missing.
> >
> > btw I tested this on php 5.0 and 4.3.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joel
> >
> >
>
>