I am trying to find if a file exists in the public_html folder of the server.
1st try:
if ( file_exists('./local-config.php')) {
but this only works if the php file calling the above if statement is in the same folder... no good...
2nd try
if ( file_exists( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/local-config.php' ) ) {
doesn't work...
3rd try
if ( file_exists( 'http://'. $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/local-config.php' ) ) {
also doesn't work...
4th try
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] seems to fall short of my public_html folder!
Any ideas?
I can get this working if I put in the full path... e.g.
if ( file_exists( '/home/username/public_html/local-config.php' ) ) {
however this is no good to me because the script may be used on more than one server, so I need something generic.
Is it possible to get PHP to dynamically return the public_html path?
I create a global variable across my application for this purpose. Similar to:
define('ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));
Then I use this with the filename like:
ROOT . '/my_file.php'