Re: [PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-17 Thread kelvin
That's right. And not only that.. not all people have access to set things like the include path themselves, and would have to do it in every script they run using ini_set (). And just because there's a workaround for a problem, doesn't mean we can't provide a better solution. Kelvin Quoting Da

Re: [PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-14 Thread Daniel Lorch
hi, > > What do you think? > > Just set your include path correctly? I don't think that was his point. If file A includes file B and file B in- cludes another file, say file C, then file C will be included with the re- lative path of file A (and not file B as expected). -daniel -- PHP Interna

Re: [PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-13 Thread kelvin
__DIR__ would be cool. Do other functions that take filename parameters also expand the paths? i.e.: fopen() ..etc. If they do, then maybe there isn't a need for a function as long as there's a __DIR__ constant to easily get the current directory. Quoting Hartmut Holzgraefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-13 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: Kelvin Jones wrote: include_once realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/../example.php'); BTW: don't we have __DIR__ by now? -- Six Offene Systeme GmbH http://www.six.de/ i.A. Hartmut Holzgraefe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +49-711-99091-77 Sie finden uns auf der CeBI

Re: [PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-13 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kelvin Jones wrote: > I hope that this is an appropriate place to post a feature request! > > I posted a message on the Zend.com "into the future" forum about having > a function that would return the full path to a file relative to the > current executing script, and NOT t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-13 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Kelvin Jones wrote: include_once realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/../example.php'); what do you need the realpath() call for? (that's already taken care of internaly in the *_once() functions) -- Six Offene Systeme GmbH http://www.six.de/ i.A. Hartmut Holzgraefe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

[PHP-DEV] Relative include feedback

2003-03-13 Thread Kelvin Jones
I hope that this is an appropriate place to post a feature request! I posted a message on the Zend.com "into the future" forum about having a function that would return the full path to a file relative to the current executing script, and NOT the first script called, i.e.: Instead of doing: in