On 23/05/2026 8:42 pm, php@s22.us wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the problem of having PHP
> return that information, since it already does so. E.g. __DIR__ will
> return:
>
> /home/username/path/to/dir
This assumes your project code lives somewhere in a subfolder within
`$HOME`. In many situations, that is not the case at all. For example,
it could simply be `/app`. Or, as a result of a chroot, `/home/username`
may not be exposed at all. Instead, `__DIR__` would simply return
`/path/to/dir`.
>
> Perhaps a magic constant would be the wrong way to do it, but in my
> thinking, it would fit right in with __FILE__, __DIR__, etc.
If it were to fit in with __FILE__, then it should be a magic constant.
But I do not think it fits there. It should be an environment variable
because it belongs to the runtime environment.
--
Regards,
Jordi Kroon
