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[Dan Cech]

Jay,

Just occurred to me you could also use the __FILE__ constant.

Dan

Dan Cech wrote:
> Jay,
> 
> You should be able to use the getcwd() function to tell you where the 
> script is running.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Jayesh Sheth wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> thanks for your reply. You referred me to the current Windows API
>> function, but my sample (PHP) code did not work.
>>
>> I think is because this extension only worked with a range of older
>> versions of PHP, judging from information on the individual function 
>> pages
>> for this extension (
>> http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.w32api-deftype.php ).
>>
>> Here the sample code that I used with PHP 4.3.10
>>
>> <?php
>> // Get current directory using Windows System DLL API
>>
>> // Load the w32api extension
>> // Dynamic loading did not work for me (so I added an entry to php.ini)
>>  dl("php_w32api.dll");
>>
>> // Register Windows API function
>> w32api_register_function("kernel32.dll", "GetCurrentDirectoryA", 
>> "string");
>>
>> // Make a buffer of appropriate size to store the current directory path
>> $buf = str_repeat(' ', 255);
>>
>> // Call the function so that it stores the value of the current directory
>> path in $buf
>> GetCurrentDirectoryA($buf, strlen($buf));
>>
>> // Output it:
>> echo "Current directory is $buf .";
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> This is resulted in a fatal error saying that GetCurrentDirectoryA is not
>> defined as a function. I.e., this extension is not working.
>>
>> I tried the ffi ( http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi ) extension PHP 5, but
>> it gave the following error:
>> ---------------------------
>> Warning
>> ---------------------------
>> PHP Startup: Ĥ8: Unable to initialize module
>> Module compiled with module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=1
>> PHP    compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
>> These options need to match
>>
>> If anyone knows a way around please let me know (perhaps a C extension 
>> for
>> PHP 4? I can understand a bit of C when I read it, but writing it is
>> another thing).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Jay Sheth
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