* Thus wrote Trejkaz Xaoza:
> Jason Barnett wrote:
> > Ahhhh, methinks I have a competitor for a FileSystem Manager :) Perhaps I
> > misunderstand your problem, but this works fine for me (WinXP) because
> > realpath
> > [quote]Returns canonicalized absolute pathname[/quote]:
> >
> > <?php
> >
> > // we know __FILE__ is an absolute path
> > $file = __FILE__;
> > echo realpath(__FILE__) == $file ? 'The same path' : 'Not the same path';
> >
> > ?>
> >
> > http://www.php.net/realpath
>
> That works because the value in __FILE__ seems to be both canonicalised and
> absolute.
>
> For an example which breaks, realpath('/home') on my server returns
> '/usr/home', so your example would claim that /home is not absolute. Yet,
> it is. :-/
A simple workaround is testing OS:
if (windows)
// use realpath method
} else {
$absolute = $path{0} == '/';
}
Curt
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