Full On Design » Php Functions http://www.fullondesign.co.uk Design & Web Technologies Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:37:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PHP Function: realpath() http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/coding/php/1297-php-function-realpath.htm http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/coding/php/1297-php-function-realpath.htm#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:23:49 +0000 Rogem http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/?p=1297 One functions I wish I had known about when i start learned PHP is the realpath() function. Pretty much what it does is take symbolic link (such as ‘../’ or ‘/’) and returns a canonicalized absolute link (like ‘/home/public_html/folder’). Here is an example of it in action:

<?php
echo realpath('../');
// Would return: /home/mike/www/blogposts
?>
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