Comments on: PHP Function: realpath() http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/coding/php/1297-php-function-realpath.htm Design & Web Technologies Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Vincent Reniers http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/coding/php/1297-php-function-realpath.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2385 Vincent Reniers Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:31:59 +0000 http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/?p=1297#comment-2385 The most common use of realpaths would be as a base path. If you set the path as a constant BASE for example and add a '/'. Putting this constant inside every include file would make your system indepent from its surroundings. So moving the directory shouldn't coss too much problems when you use this. An alternative is also the dirname(__FILE__) function. Which returns the path to the file that is currently executing. The most common use of realpaths would be as a base path. If you set the path as a constant BASE for example and add a ‘/’. Putting this constant inside every include file would make your system indepent from its surroundings. So moving the directory shouldn’t coss too much problems when you use this.

An alternative is also the dirname(__FILE__) function. Which returns the path to the file that is currently executing.

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