How to get document root path in PHP with CLI?

Question

echo __DIR__;

" How to get document root path in PHP from any subdirectory using command line?

my directory structure--

/dinesh
       /data
            /asset

Suppose my root directry is /dinesh

and currently my script in asset but I require document root path till /dinesh only

by using command line php CLI

How will I get this?

I have tried DIR and FILE but that give path till asset and one more thing that dinesh is my local root folder name that is changeable when I move my code to other server"

There is no DocumentRoot in a PHP CLI environment. Only in a webserver environment — RiggsFolly, Jun 01 '17 at 11:30
Is this just a confusion in terminology? Are you looking for the Root folder of the disk? Or are you actually looking for the Apache `DocumentRoot` — RiggsFolly, Jun 01 '17 at 11:39
whatever the folder where my code resides , it can be disk folder also — Dinesh Ghule, Jun 01 '17 at 11:40
Does this help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29905115/how-to-get-directory-where-php-script-was-called-from — RiggsFolly, Jun 01 '17 at 11:49
can't you run 'pwd' command on CLI ? on linux it gives the absolute path of file — Shahroze Nawaz, Jun 01 '17 at 12:11

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '17 at 08:52

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echo($_SERVER["PWD"]); its working

answered Jun 05 '17 at 08:52

Dinesh Ghule

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '17 at 11:32

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try the code to get directory in php

dirname(__FILE__);

answered Jun 01 '17 at 11:32

Praveen P K

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take a look in this url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1894917/how-to-get-the-home-directory-from-a-php-cli-script – Praveen P K Jun 01 '17 at 11:47

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '22 at 13:14

In CLI mode there is no "root directory". If you do

print_r($_SERVER);

you'll see that "DOCUMENT_ROOT" is empty. What you can use is

__DIR__; //asset

That will give you the path of the script, so you can go up any levels to get your "root directory" doing

dirname(__DIR__); //one level up 'data'
dirname(dirname(__DIR__); //two levels up 'dinesh'

But php cli won't know by himself what you are considering root directory because that's a constant of the web server.

score -1 · Answer 4 · 2017-06-05T16:28:36.003

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You can print the result that comes out of the global variable

echo $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];

And print

echo @getcwd();

edited Jun 05 '17 at 16:28

answered Jun 05 '17 at 08:56

How to get document root path in PHP with CLI?

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