Constants
Joomla! Constants
These constants are defined for use in Joomla and extensions:
| DS | Directory separator. "/" |
| JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR | The path to the administrator folder. |
| JPATH_BASE | The path to the installed Joomla! site. |
| JPATH_CACHE | The path to the cache folder. |
| JPATH_COMPONENT | The path to the current component being executed. |
| JPATH_CONFIGURATION | The path to folder containing the configuration.php file. |
| JPATH_INSTALLATION | The path to the installation folder. |
| JPATH_LIBRARIES | The path to the libraries folder. |
| JPATH_PLUGINS | The path to the plugins folder. |
| JPATH_ROOT | The path to the installed Joomla! site. |
| JPATH_SITE | The path to the installed Joomla! site. |
| JPATH_THEMES | The path to the templates folder. |
| JPATH_XMLRPC | The path to the XML-RPC Web service folder. |
Note: These paths are the absolute paths of these locations within the file system, NOT the path you'd use in a URL.
For URL paths, try using JURI::base.