Joomla Constants

Following is list of constants that can be used in Joomla:

01.JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR   The path to the administrator folder.

02.JPATH_BASE  The path to the installed Joomla! site.

03.JPATH_CACHE   The path to the cache folder.

04.JPATH_COMPONENT   The path to the current component being executed.

05.JPATH_CONFIGURATION   The path to folder containing the configuration.php file.

06.JPATH_INSTALLATION  The path to the installation folder.

07.JPATH_LIBRARIES   The path to the libraries folder.

08.JPATH_PLUGINS   The path to the plugins folder.

09.JPATH_ROOT  The path to the installed Joomla! site.

10.JPATH_SITE  The path to the installed Joomla! site.

11.JPATH_THEMES  The path to the templates folder.

12.JPATH_XMLRPC  The path to the XML-RPC Web service folder.

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14.These constants are defined in _path_/includes/defines.php except JPATH_BASE which is defined in _path_/index.php.

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16.Note: These paths are the absolute paths of these locations within the file system, NOT the path you'd use in a URL.

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18.Also <a href="http://docs.joomla.org/JURI/base">JURI/base</a>.<ins datetime="2009-11-19T00:58:51+00:00"></ins>

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20./* this gives you the root of your url, something like http://www.mydomain.com/whereverjoomlais/ ;      */

21.JURI::root();

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23./* this one gives you the url to your index something like http://www.mydomain.com/whereverjoomlais/ if you are in front-end, and http://www.mydomain.com/whereverjoomlais/administrator/ if in back-end */

24.JURI::base();

25.

26./* Same but without the domain (like this: /wherejoomlais/administrator ) NOTE: this one is without the trailing "/"  */

27.JURI::base( true );

28.

29./* Path to your root directory, "/opt/xampp/..." or similar in Linux, "C:\wampp\..." on Windows */

30.var_dump( JPATH_ROOT );

31.

32./* Path to your admin directory, "/opt/xampp/joomla155/administrator" or similar in Linux, "C:\wampp\joomla155\administrator" on Windows. */

33.var_dump( JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR );

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35./* Path to your current component directory, "/opt/xampp/joomla155/administrator/components/com_free" or similar in Linux, "C:\wampp\joomla155\administrator\components\com_free" on Windows. */

36.var_dump( JPATH_COMPONENT );

37.

38./* Your directory separator: "/" in Linux, "\" on windows; use this to create a path to a directory so you don't have to worry about the server OS you're using */

39.var_dump( DS );