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[Dan Cech]

Jay,

You should be able to use the getcwd() function to tell you where the 
script is running.

Dan

Jayesh Sheth wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> thanks for your reply. You referred me to the current Windows API
> function, but my sample (PHP) code did not work.
> 
> I think is because this extension only worked with a range of older
> versions of PHP, judging from information on the individual function pages
> for this extension (
> http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.w32api-deftype.php ).
> 
> Here the sample code that I used with PHP 4.3.10
> 
> <?php
> // Get current directory using Windows System DLL API
> 
> // Load the w32api extension
> // Dynamic loading did not work for me (so I added an entry to php.ini)
>  dl("php_w32api.dll");
> 
> // Register Windows API function
> w32api_register_function("kernel32.dll", "GetCurrentDirectoryA", "string");
> 
> // Make a buffer of appropriate size to store the current directory path
> $buf = str_repeat(' ', 255);
> 
> // Call the function so that it stores the value of the current directory
> path in $buf
> GetCurrentDirectoryA($buf, strlen($buf));
> 
> // Output it:
> echo "Current directory is $buf .";
> 
> ?>
> 
> This is resulted in a fatal error saying that GetCurrentDirectoryA is not
> defined as a function. I.e., this extension is not working.
> 
> I tried the ffi ( http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi ) extension PHP 5, but
> it gave the following error:
> ---------------------------
> Warning
> ---------------------------
> PHP Startup: Ĥ8: Unable to initialize module
> Module compiled with module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> PHP    compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> These options need to match
> 
> If anyone knows a way around please let me know (perhaps a C extension for
> PHP 4? I can understand a bit of C when I read it, but writing it is
> another thing).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jay Sheth
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