Get skin path in Magento?

Question

I have a few custom PHP functions for my Magento store that I stored in myfunc.php and I need to require it from in a few different .phtml files. How do I do that?

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Answer 1

First note that

Mage::getBaseDir('skin')

returns only path to skin directory of your Magento install (/your/magento/dir/skin).

You can access absolute path to currently used skin directory using:

Mage::getDesign()->getSkinBaseDir()

This method accepts an associative array as optional parameter to modify result.

Following keys are recognized:

• _area frontend (default) or adminhtml
• _package your package
• _theme your theme
• _relative when this is set (as an key) path relative to Mage::getBaseDir('skin') is returned.

So in your case correct answer would be:

require(Mage::getDesign()->getSkinBaseDir().DS.'myfunc.php');