I have an absolute path of a file, Is there a way to get the file absolute path
http://domainname/rootfolder/filename.php
and I wanna get something like
/home/domainname/public_html/foldername/filename.php
5 Answers
This is the easiest way:
$path = parse_url('http://domainname/rootfolder/filename.php', PHP_URL_PATH);
//To get the dir, use: dirname($path)
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $path;
That'll print you the full path.
Documentation:
2 Comments
Hauke
This does not work for user_dir paths, where /~user/... maps to something inside user's home directory. In that case you have to use
$_SERVER['CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT']and remove the ~userportion from the url.
Jake
$_SERVER['REAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT'] should also be checked. You may also need to check $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']. It is a bit of a minefield.You can use the parse_url function to get the local part of the URL.
Converting that into a file path then requires that you know where the document root of the webserver is. If it is the same server as the one the page is running on, then you can usually get that from $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
It also depends on there being nothing preventing the URL from not being a direct mapping onto a file system (such as mod_rewrite, mod_alias, URIs being routed through an MVC framework, etc). For example, for a system I'm working on at the moment, if you were to hit http://example.com/blog/2012/01/01/ then the files involved would be /home/user/recall/script/recall.psgi and /home/user/recall/root/blog/day.tt but the DocumentRoot would be /home/user/recall/htdocs/)
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Tariq Aziz
my script is on different server and the path is of different
Quentin
Then you need to know how that server is configured before you can calculate where on its file system a URI resolves to.
Try $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. Assuming a URL like
http://example.com/subfolder/somefile.html
and the file's actual location on the server being
/home/sites/example.com/html/subfolder/somefile.html
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--- $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
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Tariq Aziz
my script is on different server and the path is of different
Marc B
Then you'll need to know what that doc root is. Such data is NOT revealed by standard http requests.
try
$filepath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/rootfolder/filename.php'
this may help you.
Comments
I've found this to work reliably:
function get_file_path_from_url( $file_url ){
return realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . parse_url( $file_url, PHP_URL_PATH ));
}
rootfolderandfoldernamein examples?