View path inside default.php in joomla component

Solution:

The recommended location for any web accessible media (images, javascript, css etc) required by a Joomla! Extension (component, module etc) is the/media directory. This is covered in the Manifest documentation on the Joomla! docs website.

To put it simply, in your extensions directory include a directory calledmedia (or something meaningful to you). In that store all of your web accessible content, you can even have sub-directories likeimages orjs orcss or all of them.

Then in your manifest XML add themedia element, like:

    <media folder="media" destination="com_example">
            <filename>logo.png</filename>
            <folder>css</folder>
            <folder>js</folder>
    </media>
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The Joomla installer will then create a folder for you inside/media calledcom_example, then you can access all your media files with calls like:

$document->addStyleSheet(JURI::root() . 'media/com_example/css/example.css');
$document->addScript(JURI::root() . 'media/com_example/css/example.js');
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or

<img src="<?php echo JURI::root() . 'media/com_example/'; ?>logo.png"
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Solution:

You can try this

<?php echo JURI::root();?>components/com_mycomponent
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Solution:

This will give you path to components/CURRENT COMPONENT.

echo JPATH_COMPONENT;
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