Php current directory of file

I have a php page inside a folder on my website.

I need to add the name of the current directory into a variable for example:

$myVar = current_directory_name;

Is this possible?

hakre

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asked Apr 3, 2012 at 16:20

Satch3000Satch3000

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getcwd();

or

dirname(__FILE__);

or (PHP5)

basename(__DIR__) 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.getcwd.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php

You can use basename() to get the trailing part of the path :)

In your case, I'd say you are most likely looking to use getcwd(), dirname(__FILE__) is more useful when you have a file that needs to include another library and is included in another library.

Eg:

main.php
libs/common.php
libs/images/editor.php

In your common.php you need to use functions in editor.php, so you use

common.php:

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/images/editor.php';

main.php:

require_once libs/common.php

That way when common.php is require'd in main.php, the call of require_once in common.php will correctly includes editor.php in images/editor.php instead of trying to look in current directory where main.php is run.

Oliver Nybo

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answered Apr 3, 2012 at 16:21

Andreas WongAndreas Wong

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To get only the name of the directory where script executed:

//Path to script: /data/html/cars/index.php
echo basename(dirname(__FILE__)); //"cars"

answered Aug 1, 2014 at 5:31

You can use dirname(__FILE__) to get the path to the directory of the current file.

Example: /path_to/your_dir/your_file.php:

// use dirname to get the directory of the current file
$path = dirname(__FILE__);
// $path here is now /path_to/your_dir

// split directory into array of pieces
$pieces = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $path);
// $pieces = ['path_to', 'your_dir']

// get the last piece
echo $pieces[count($pieces) - 1];
// result is: your_dir

George

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answered Mar 14, 2013 at 10:35

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echo basename(__DIR__); will return the current directory name only
echo basename(__FILE__); will return the current file name only

answered Sep 28, 2013 at 19:03

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Actually I found the best solution is the following:

$cur_dir = explode('\\', getcwd());
echo $cur_dir[count($cur_dir)-1];

if your dir is www\var\path\ Current_Path

then this returns Current_path

answered Mar 24, 2013 at 1:42

AndrewAndrew

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$myVar = str_replace('/', '', $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]);

libs/images/index.php
Result: images

Oliver Nybo

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answered Aug 16, 2016 at 0:28

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To get the names of current directory we can use getcwd() or dirname(__FILE__) but getcwd() and dirname(__FILE__) are not synonymous. They do exactly what their names are. If your code is running by referring a class in another file which exists in some other directory then these both methods will return different results.

For example if I am calling a class, from where these two functions are invoked and the class exists in some /controller/goodclass.php from /index.php then getcwd() will return '/ and dirname(__FILE__) will return /controller.

answered Jan 1, 2021 at 4:32

I use this line to get the actual file directory name without the path. (For windows)

substr(dirname(__FILE__), strrpos(dirname(__FILE__), '\\') + 1)

I changed it a bit to work on Linux also

substr(dirname(__FILE__), strrpos(str_replace('\\', '/', dirname(__FILE__)), '/') + 1)

answered Sep 30, 2021 at 8:44

basename(getcwd()); // returns only the current working dir name.

answered Mar 4 at 9:06

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