March 20, 2012
How to get folder root from url?
Question by Earvin Bryan S. Co
How do you get the root folder from a php file?
For example
URL: http://localhost/project_name/
Result: return “project_name”
Answer by Starx
Use the parse_url() function for this
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$urlParse = parse_url($url);
echo $urlParse['hostname'];
However, this will only work, if you are using a webserver, for these type of url
If you want this to work on a localhost, add some few lines
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$urlParse = parse_url($url);
$path = explode('/',$urlParse ['path']);
echo $path[1]; //gives project_name in your case
