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Gets the current working directory
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
Return Values
Returns the current working directory on success, or
On some Unix variants, getcwd() will return
ExamplesExample 506. getcwd() example<?phpThe above example will output something similar to: /home/didouRelated Examples ( Source code ) » getcwd Examples ( Source code ) » The current working directory Code Examples / Notes » getcwdmanux
watch out: working directory, and thus: getcwd () is "/" while being into a register'ed shutdown function!!! emailfire
To get the username of the account: <?php $dir = getcwd(); $part = explode('/', $dir); $username = $part[1]; ?> If current directory is '/home/mike/public_html/' it would return mike. raja
This is current working directory. X example, your document root is c:\Inetpub\www\htdocs. When You need to know what is your doc_root; /* Like ask yourself your name ;)*/ $_cur_dir = getcwd(); echo "My doc_root is $_cur_dir "; // it prints out : My doc_root is c:\Inetpub\www\htdocs /* Usually you need it after using chdir() to know what is running in current directory */ Regards Raja mark dot phpnetspam
This function is often used in conjuction with basename(), i.e. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php troy dot cregger
Take care if you use getcwd() in file that you'll need to include (using include, require, or *_once) in a script located outside of the same directory tree. example: <?php //in /var/www/main_document_root/include/MySQL.inc.php if (strpos(getcwd(),'main_')>0) { //code to set up main DB connection } ?> <?php //in home/cron_user/maintenance_scripts/some_maintenance_script.php require_once ('/var/www/main_document_root/include/MySQL.inc.php'); ?> In the above example, the database connection will not be made because the call to getcwd() returns the path relative to the calling script ( /home/cron_user/maintenance_scripts ) NOT relative to the file where the getcwd() function is called. memandeemail
Some server's has security options to block the getcwd() Alternate option: str_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'],'', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']); fvu
Make sure to lowercase the result before comparing Windows paths, because this function returns ambiguous results on Windows. From within Apache, the returned path is lowercase, while from the command line interface (CLI) the returned path uses the 'real' Windows pathname. For example, running the 'print getcwd();' command from 'C:\Program Files' returns either c:\program files (Apache) C:\Program Files (CLI) When the directory is specified using chdir(), getcwd() uses the exact chdir argument. For example: <?php chdir('C:\\PrOgRaM fIlEs'); print getcwd(); ?> outputs: C:\PrOgRaM fIlEs (Apache & CLI) The following code can be used to return a unambiguous lowercased cwd when running on Windows: <?php $sCwd = (substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3) == 'WIN') ? strtolower(getcwd()) : getcwd(); ?> vermicin
If your PHP cli binary is built as a cgi binary (check with php_sapi_name), the cwd functions differently than you might expect. say you have a script /usr/local/bin/purge you are in /home/username php CLI: getcwd() gives you /home/username php CGI: getcwd() gives you /usr/local/bin This can trip you up if you're writing command line scripts with php. You can override the CGI behavior by adding -C to the php call: #!/usr/local/bin/php -Cq and then getcwd() behaves as it does in the CLI-compiled version. ab5602
If getcwd() returns nothing for you under Solaris with an NFS mounted subdirectory, you are running into an OS bug that is supposedly fixed in recent versions of Solaris 10. This same OS bug effects the include() and require() functions as well.
hodgman
I use this code to replicate the pushd and popd DOS commands in PHP: <?php $g_DirStack = array(); function pushd( $dir ) { global $g_DirStack; array_push( $g_DirStack, getcwd() ); chdir( $dir ); } function popd( ) { global $g_DirStack; $dir = array_pop( $g_DirStack ); assert( $dir !== null ); chdir( $dir ); } ?> This allows you to change the current directory with pushd, then use popd to "undo" the directory change when you're done. dave
getcwd() returns the path of the "main" script referenced in the URL. dirname(__FILE__) will return the path of the script currently executing. I had written a script that required several class definition scripts from the same directory. It retrieved them based on filename matches and used getcwd to figure out where they were. Didn't work so well when I needed to call that first script from a new file in a different directory. marcus
"On some Unix variants, getcwd() will return FALSE if any one of the parent directories does not have the readable or search mode set, even if the current directory does." Just so you know, MacOS X is one of these variants (at least 10.4 is for me). You can make it work by applying 'chmod a+rx' to all folders from your site folder upwards. |
