I am trying to extract a server path including directory from the $_Server Predefined Variables. I seem to be able to get everything except what I want.

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] yields /home/username/public_html/domain-name
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] yields /directory/filename
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] yields /home/username/public_html/domain-name/directory/filename

What I want returned is /home/username/public_html/domain-name/directory/ Did I miss something somewhere?

If using explode on the 'SCRIPT_FILENAME' is the only option, I sure would appreciate some help on that.

Could you just use document root, and php self combined?

Something like this: (I don't have my parser, so I can't check this)

$path= $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

You may have to tinker with it, but this should provide what you need.

PHP Code:

echo dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']); 


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


should output
/home/username/public_html/domain-name/directory/
for
/home/username/public_html/domain-name/directory/file.txt

I appreciate the time you guys took to reply. I don't want the file name.

What I want returned is /home/username/public_html/domain-name/directory/

Actually I don't plan to echo the statement at all. I want to do something else with it after I secure it as a variable.

Well then, simply don't echo what's returned by dirname()...

PHP Code:

$stuff=dirname($file); 


I must be denser than a rock today. I never managed to make that work. On that page you linked to, I did find something that works.

Thanks for your help.