Get "includee" file?

Is there some way to get the name of the file that called the current one, either through a require() or include()?

 

I don't know of a way to do that, but if there is only one level of includes, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] will tell you what you need to know.

 

That isn't available when run from the command line..

 

<?php include("replacefilehere.php"); ?>

thnx
travis

 

echo __FILE__;

PHP:

 

That will return the file in which the code is, not the filename of the parent file I think

So far I know if, there is no possibility to check it, unless if you put in the parent file the following.

$parent_file = "parentfile.php"; // The current file
include("childfile.php"); // The include, so you must put the above code above the include() or require()

PHP:

In the child file you can then call the parent filename with using the variable $parent_file. (The variable $parent_file doesn't has to be made global or so, it will automaticly pass).

Hope this helps.

 

I would probably just set a variable as suggested (well, I would actually question the architecture, but anyway...).

If you REALLY want it to be dynamic, you could look at the output of the debug_backtrace function and traceback until you find the parent file.

 

Hmm alright well I'll just take the variable route... Was just wondering. Thanks to everyone

 

I've done something like this before.

In the parent file, put:

$currentFile = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
$parts = Explode('/', $currentFile);
$parentfile = $parts[count($parts) - 1];

PHP:

And in the included file:

echo $parentfile;

PHP:

Should work.

 

NinjaNoodles: that would only work for one level of inclusion, though. If FileA included FileB and FileB included FileC, FileC would still see 'FileA'. I guess that may be what the OP wanted but if that were they case, there's no real need for anything special, anyway, as PHP_SELF is available in FileC in the first place, right?

 

Well, PHP_SELF gets the file path, whereas the OP just wanted the file name, no?

 

Like I said, it would only work for one level of inclusion as PHP_SELF relates to the script that is being executed. If you read my example, you would see that even if you had 1 file including another and that file including another file, that last file would still see the initial 'root' file, not the file that is including it.

 

Well, I don't have the time to code it ATM, but there's probably a way to dynamically generate variables like $parentfile2 if ( isset($parentfile) ), and $parentfile3, and so on...

 

also, basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) is quicker/cleaner than your method

 

Oh well. If you really wanted you could take my suggestion of using the output of debug_backtrace within a function and it would be pretty simple to do completely dynamically. I don't have time to do the code but it would be pretty easy.