Get current script's and its parent folder path

Question

Is there any Joomla way to return the path or parent's folder path of a current script?

So far when needed, I am using the Joomla Constants and building manually the remaining of the path. It's also possible with php, but I am wondering if there is any Joomla API functionality to get around this.

So let's say I am inside a template override:

templates/mytemplate/html/my_component/my_view/template.php

And want to create a new directory inside the parent "view" directory in order to place a file inside it, like so:

templates/mytemplate/html/my_component/my_view/newDir/newfile.ext

Then I want to call/link that new newFile.ext from the template.php file.

Is there any Joomla way to get the path of my_view dir?

Answer 1

There is no Joomla API to get the current directory. There is no reason for it since dirname(__FILE__) works perfectly fine :-)

If you need to sanitise the filename, you can use JPath::clean().