On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:56, Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was thinking along the same line. I bet some people have been lazy >> and used __FILE__. "/../../foobar.php". > > That will not work. And that is moronic code anyway. Why wouldn't they use > __DIR__ there?
Because it didn't exist until 5.3 (or 5.2.7, don't remember) and they are to lazy to do dirname(__FILE__)... It is silly, but still an "edge case" we need to add to the "backwards compatibility breaks" document :) -Hannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
