Get URL of a file on a server with PHP

Question

Say I want to find a file in one of the parent directories of the script. Consider this file tree:

Folder0
    Folder1
        needle.php
        Folder2
            Folder3
                script.php

I'm running script.php and I need to find which directory contains needle.php. I do this:

while (!file_exists($nameFile)) {
    chdir('..');
    }
return getcwd();

This returns "Folder0\Folder1\";

What is the proper way to transform this path into a URL of this file? (e.g. `http://hostname.com/Folder0/Folder1/needle.php")

Or is there a better way to get a URL of a file on a server?

Use [glob()](http://php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php) function — , Feb 09 '13 at 21:02
Found this solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13616247/710356. Is it solid? — Stas Bichenko, Feb 09 '13 at 21:02

mohammad mohsenipur · Answer 1 · 2013-02-09T21:18:35.170

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getcwd()

give You current dir from server root like /home/vincent/public_html/folder You Can get DOCUMENT_ROOT By

  $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];//  /home/vincent/public_html

You Must Remove DOCUMENT_ROOT from first of getcwd and concat with Host Name. like this

  echo str_replace("\\",'/',"http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].substr(getcwd(),strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])));

output:

 http://www.domain.com/folder

edited Feb 09 '13 at 21:18

answered Feb 09 '13 at 21:04

mohammad mohsenipur

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '13 at 20:59

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You can use The RecursiveDirectoryIterator class

and here is a good tutorial that might help you

I hope this help, if anymore help needed we are here and glad to help :)

answered Feb 09 '13 at 20:59

Seder

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 09 '13 at 21:01

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while (!file_exists($nameFile)) {
    chdir('..');
}
return "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].str_replace('\\', '/', getcwd());

answered Feb 09 '13 at 21:01

Vignesh Sakthivel

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 09 '13 at 21:02

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$basePath="http://hostname.com/"; $fileName="needle.php"; $folderPath="Folder0\Folder1\";

$path=str_replace("\","/",$folderPath); $pathToFile=$basePath.$path.$fileName;

echo $pathToFile;

Make a function out of it !

Lucian

answered Feb 09 '13 at 21:02

Lucian Depold

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Get URL of a file on a server with PHP

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