Question

I know it may be simple question to all experienced developer..
I have trapped with the problem that how to set the path in bootstrap file

like ……

when i work on local … i use this path

 $filenam = "C:/xampp/htdocs/application/public/pdf_profile/$pdfname.html";

when i upload this particular file… i need to make change ..in this path ..like this

$filenam = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/public/pdf_profile/$pdfname.html"; 

i want to know is there any solution to prevent change again n again .. like any change in bootstrap file .. how to define path in this way that i have no need to worry about path.. at time of local or live
Basically am working with zend

thanks in advance !

Answer 1

Define a constant in your index.php

define('BASE_PATH', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));

You can use this constant like so everywhere in your application

$filename = BASE_PATH . '/pdf_profile/' . $pdfname . '.html";