[development] base_path() not returning path to Drupal root

[Moshe Weitzman]

 url(file_directory_path(), NULL, NULL, TRUE)

but the usual case is that you have a path all the way to a file in
which case you do

url(file_create_path($path), NULL, NULL, TRUE)

or somesuch. just working from memory.

On 9/21/07, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Tomas J. Fulopp <tomi at vacilando.org> wrote:
> > I have one other question I am pondering for a crazy long time - I
> > wonder if it's a bug in the core...?
> >
> > An user has Drupal installed in www.example.com/foldera/folderb/ and in
> > there a files folder ( thus www.example.com/foldera/folderb/files/ )
> >
> > In my module, I need to determine the path to the 'files' folder
> > relative to the domain name (example.com)
> >
> > So I've used file_directory_path() .. that gave me just 'files'.
> > Then I've used base_path() hoping that it would give me
> > /foldera/folderb/ this way
> > base_path() . file_directory_path()
> > but the result was
> > /files
>
> file_directory_path() is a disk file path relative to drupal, and
> base_path() is an URL path. So, using base_path() .
> file_directory_path()
>
> - when I access the site as http://example.com/foldera/folderb it
> gives me "/foldera/folderb/files"
> - when I access the site as http://subdomain.example.com it give me "/files"
>
> But because it is an URL path, it is the same place and it works in
> both cases as far as the web browser is concerned. Is there a reason
> for your module to know the physical disk paths?
>
>
> > I see this issue was discussed at length at
> > http://lists.drupal.org/archives/support/2006-03/msg00042.html but there
> > are no clear conclusions, and anyway, that's a thread from March 2006.
> > So I wonder whether there is a clean solution for this.
> >
> > I'm on Drupal 5.2, btw.
> >
> > Tomas
> >
> >
>