That wasn't a typo. This code is pulled directly from the phpBB installation (install.php). It is in fact:
$phpbb_root_path = './../'; include($phpbb_root_path.'extension.inc'); Jesse Santana Project Lead - Enterprise Services Group Information Technology Services California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 Office: (562)985-8511 Fax: (562)985-8855 Paul Blondé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/10/2007 02:03 PM To "'Keith Roberts'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <php-install@lists.php.net> cc Subject RE: [PHP-INSTALL] PHP v4 vs. PHP v5 behavior (fwd) -----Original Message----- > >I use ../../ all over the place on PHP 5.2.1 - the only complaints I get >from PHP is if I have not set the include path correctly. > >HTH > >Keith > The only thing I noticed, though, was that he posted a path with "./../", not "../../", which could have been a typo but might not have been. I seem to recall that some *NIX variants (notably Solaris) used to support that style for disambiguity reasons or some such nonsense, but I can't locate the reference to it anymore and Google chokes on even a quoted search for that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Blondé Web Programmer enTel Communications Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250.633.5151 866.633.2644