Question

In an upload script, I have

$destination = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/uploads/'. $_SESSION['username'] . '/entries/' . '/' . $year . '/';

and i upload the image path to the database, and thus the string stores is the real_path(ie. S:\sites\www\mysite\uploads\username\entries\2011\file.png)

is there a function that converts that real path into “http://sitename/uploads…”

althought not hard to implement, i was wondering if there is a built-in one. i looked in the docs but couldn’t find anything.

Answer 1

Looks like all you need to do is build your path differently.

$base = '/uploads/'. $_SESSION['username'] . '/entries/' . '/' . $year . '/';
$destination = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $base;
$url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $base;