How to Get the Home Directory from a PHP Cli Script

How to get the home directory from a PHP CLI script?

Use $_SERVER['HOME']

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Edit:

To make it complete, see what print_r($_SERVER)gave me, executed from the command line:

Array
(
    [TERM_PROGRAM] => Apple_Terminal
    [TERM] => xterm-color
    [SHELL] => /bin/bash
    [TMPDIR] => /var/folders/Lb/LbowO2ALEX4JTK2MXxLGd++++TI/-Tmp-/
    [TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION] => 272
    [USER] => felix
    [COMMAND_MODE] => unix2003
    [__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING] => 0x1F5:0:0
    [PATH] =>/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin
    [PWD] => /Users/felix/Desktop
    [LANG] => de_DE.UTF-8
    [SHLVL] => 1
    [HOME] => /Users/felix
    [LOGNAME] => felix
    [DISPLAY] => /tmp/launch-XIM6c8/:0
    [_] => ./test_php2
    [OLDPWD] => /Users/felix
    [PHP_SELF] => ./test_php2
    [SCRIPT_NAME] => ./test_php2
    [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => ./test_php2
    [PATH_TRANSLATED] => ./test_php2
    [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => 
    [REQUEST_TIME] => 1260658268
    [argv] => Array
      (
        [0] => ./test_php2
      )

    [argc] => 1
    )

I hope I don't expose relevant security information ;)

Windows Compatibility

Note that $_SERVER['HOME'] is not available on Windows. Instead, the variable is split into $_SERVER['HOMEDRIVE'] and $_SERVER['HOMEPATH'].

How to find path of user's home directory in PHP Cli on linux?

You can find the current username by using whomai as you already wrote. Use that name to find the line corresponding to that user in /etc/passwd. From that line cut out the home dir information:

$currentUserHomeDir = exec('grep `whoami` /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f6');

PHP. Get user home directory (for virtual hosting)

I founded working solution:

$user = posix_getpwuid(posix_getuid())

This returns the array, e.g.

Array
(
    [name] => username
    [passwd] => ********
    [uid] => 501
    [gid] => 20
    [gecos] => Full Name
    [dir] => /home/username
    [shell] => /bin/bash
)

So to access user home dir, it's $user['dir'].

How to get document root path in PHP with CLI?

echo($_SERVER["PWD"]); its working

How to get directory where PHP script was called from

Almost hit the "Post question" and guessed to check command line parameters. :-)

$ php -h
...
  -C               Do not chdir to the script's directory
...

How to use tilde with `file_get_contents` to read file from home directory

Answer for your question is here https://stackoverflow.com/a/1894954/2686510

In short, use $_SERVER['HOME'] variable to access current user home folder.

Get absolute path of initially run script

echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__));

If you place this in an included file, it prints the path to this include. To get the path of the parent script, replace __FILE__ with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']. But be aware that PHP_SELF is a security risk!

Get Root Directory Path of a PHP project

For PHP >= 5.3.0 try

PHP magic constants.

__DIR__

And make your path relative.

For PHP < 5.3.0 try

dirname(__FILE__)

$_SERVER document root in CLI

$_SERVER contains headers which won't be available in the CLI. The web server defines the document root. In the CLI, you aren't using a web server, so there is no document root.

You can try to rely on environmental variables, assuming they are set by your shell.

For instance, PWD represents the current directory and HOME represents the user's home directory.

$pwd = getenv('PWD');
$home = getenv('HOME');

You can also use __FILE__ or __DIR__ magic constants to try and depict the path you are currently in.

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