Considering this article Developing a MVC component for Joomla , following is the code

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Asked: May 31, 20262026-05-31T17:49:01+00:00 2026-05-31T17:49:01+00:00

Considering this article Developing a MVC component for Joomla , following is the code

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Considering this article Developing a MVC component for Joomla, following is the code to include the general template,

$pathToGeneralView = strchr(dirname(__FILE__), dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']));
$pathToGeneralView = str_replace(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']),'.',$pathToGeneralView );
$pathToGeneralView = $pathToGeneralView . "/../../general/";  <-- returning path from current position. 
...
<?php require_once $pathToGeneralView . 'navigate.header.php'; ?>
<P>Do something    
<?php require_once $pathToGeneralView . 'navigate.footer.php'; ?>

With the file system hierarchy,

./com_compname/views/general/navigate.header.php  <-- sniplet code for the header
./com_compname/views/general/navigate.footer.php  <-- sniplet code for the footer
./com_compname/views/mngtable1/view.html.php
./com_compname/views/mngtable1/tmpl/default.php *
./com_compname/views/mngtable2/view.html.php
./com_compname/views/mngtable2/tmpl/default.php *

Since the general template component is just under the ../../general folder, why do the author bothering to use strchr, str_replace to deal with the folder path? Isn’t it ../../general/navigate.header.php or ../../general/navigate.footer.php enough?

Thanks.