Question

I’m trying to make sure my file paths are as robust as they can be, and everyone knows that hard-coding paths can be disastrous in a lot of cases. Are there any general rules of thumb regarding referencing paths? Mostly concerning referencing above $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].

I’ve been doing ../../(x100000), but it looks messy and was hoping there was a cleaner way.

Thanks

Answer 1

To get the current directory of the running script I usually do:

str_replace('//', '/', str_replace('\\', '/', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'));

This is a little bit hacky but it’s reliable AFAIK.

But I think it will not work with Windows UNC paths (if you use them)…