Question

Let’s say I’m writing a global logData method that wants to write to a log file that has the same name as the php that’s running it, but with a .log extension.

I’m including this logging in a parent php with the intention of having it always write to log files that are whatever the *parent file name is (not the tools.php lib in which it’s sitting).

So, I have
/some/arbitrary/directory/parent.php

which calls

include (“/path/to/my/php/libs/tools.php”);

but when I run my logging method that’s in tools.php it logs to a file called

/path/to/my/php/libs/tools.php.log

rather than
/some/arbitrary/directory/parent.php.log (which is what I’d like).

I’m using __FILE__ which is behaving this way (probably as its intended to). Is there a command for getting the parent’s file name so that I can get this to work as I intend? Or will I have to pass FILE as a param into my method from the parent php to get it to write to the correct output file?

TIA

Answer 1

You could probably use $_SERVER[“SCRIPT_FILENAME”]