[thelist] Getting path minus document root using PHP

[kasimir-k]

Stephen Rider scribeva in 13/12/2007 19:34:
> Example:
> $string = "/sites/mysite.com/public_html/subdirectory/myfile.php"
> 
> I want:
> $newstring = "/subdirectory/myfile.php"
> 
> I could just do a search/replace, but I want to watch out for the  
> (unlikely) possibility that the root path could also exist within a  
> later part of $string.  In other words, we must check that the piece  
> removed is always the _beginning_ of $string.


how about just

$newstring = preg_replace(
    '%^/sites/mysite\.com/public_html%',
    '',
    $string);

?
.k