By tstclair on

This seems like a stupid question to me, but I have looked around quite a bit and can't find it.. How do I get the path to the drupal root directory? (there must be a function or predefined variable to do this, right??)

thanks.

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zaboomafoozarg’s picture

zaboomafoozarg commented

I think base_path() should do the trick.

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tstclair commented

Yeah, I thought that it would too, but for me it only returns '/', which is not the location of my drupal root directory. Is there some sort of file or environment variable I have to set?

zaboomafoozarg’s picture

zaboomafoozarg commented

well there is always $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] from the PHP, could use that.

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dannygoh commented

Hi tstclair,

This is how i use $base_url for similar purposes:

 
  /* first bring it to scope */
    global $base_url;

    $html_string = '<a href=' . $base_url . '/node/42042></a>';

And if your website is 'http://drupal.org' (for example) then you will get http://drupal.org/node/42042

Hope this will help.

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samjosein commented

I found this one very useful.

I got it printed on my login page.

<form action="<?php global $base_url;print $base_url; ?>/node?destination=node" method="post" id="user-login-form" accept-charset="UTF-8">

dkinzer’s picture

dkinzer commented 
getcwd()

Gets the current working directory.

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dahousecat commented

Use DRUPAL_ROOT.

It is defined in index.php as:

define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());

This is in fact the first line that runs on every single page request.

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siliconmeadow commented

DRUPAL_ROOT was introduced in Drupal 7, well after this question was asked.

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ravi_admec commented

hello
I used DRUPAL_ROOT and it gave me /home/sairam1818/public_html/www.devotionalindia.com/newdevotionalindia

You can see that '/home/sairam1818/public_html/' needs to be replaced by 'http://'

so is there any function to get http://www.devotionindia.com/newdevotionalindia or i need to use str_replace function to deal with it.

one more suggestion i need:
what method should i use to get the above url if i am wrking with block.

Thanks

Ravi Bhadauria
https://www.admecindia.co.in
https://www.web-development-institute.com
https://www.graphic-design-institute.com
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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

is there any function to get http://www.devotionindia.com/newdevotionalindia

  global $base_url;

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AmolB commented

This worked for me.

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ravi_admec commented

I noticed that images were not appearing when following issue is there,
1. if image name contains any white space.
2. DRUPAL_ROOT gives '/home/sairam1818/public_html' instead 'http:/'

I found this below given solution, plz see it.

echo 'background:url('.str_replace('/home/sairam1818/public_html','http:/',DRUPAL_ROOT).'/sites/default/files/'.str_replace(' ', '%20', $getImg).')

It manages whitespace in the image path and replaces the undesired value with http:/
Plz let me know if you have any doubts.

Thanks

Ravi Bhadauria
https://www.admecindia.co.in
https://www.web-development-institute.com
https://www.graphic-design-institute.com
https://www.cadtraininginstitute.com

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ravibarnwal commented

You should read these documention Global variable drupal 7

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srikanth.g commented

global $base_url;print $base_url;
Website logo always pointing to home page dynamically,this code works fine with drupal7.

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mattrock1 commented

This works perfectly for me. Thanks srikanth.g!

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graham leach commented

Interesting! Thanks!