PHP: How to set current working directory to be same as directory executing the script

Question

I\'m in the process of transferring my website from one server to another. I have some php scripts that use the is_readable function which uses the current working director

Answer 1

You can get the current directory a script is in with dirname(__FILE__) or __DIR__ if >= PHP 5.3.

Answer 2

This is normal in CLI mode:

It does not change the working directory to that of the script. (-C and --no-chdir switches kept for compatibility)

a quick workaround would be

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));

Answer 3

chdir(__DIR__);

or

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));

(see chdir and magic constants).

But that should be by default.