include paths from browser and command line

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What is the best command line equivalent of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
I have recently written a number of scripts to run from an intranet
that generate reports written to CSV and XLS files that can be downloaded.
I have extended these scripts to zip and email the reports to personnel.
I am now trying to automate the scripts by calling them from Windows Scheduled Task using such CLI

C:\apache\xampp\php\php.exe  "C:\apache\xampp\htdocs\intranet\programs\Reports\interCoy\intercoyEntry.php"

Unfortunately they are failing on this line
[PHP]require_once '../Includes/includeFiles.php';[/PHP] I think because the script called is not the current working directory from a CLI.
And this doesn't seem to work either [PHP]$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/';[/PHP] The scripts must still work in a browser as well as a CLI.
What is a tidy way to handle the two problems

[Atli]

Hi.

You could always just use a full path.
Like:

C:\Documents\MyWeb\MyFile.php
 

Or, if your running on a Unix server

/usr/localhost/MyWeb/MyFile.php
 

The include() function should accept an absolute path and it should solve the problem the relative path is causing in your CLI app.

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The problem with absolute paths is they are not portable across servers.
I am going to try
[PHP]$absolute_path = dirname(__FILE__).'/';[/PHP]
which seems to work via a browser and CLI