On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:07:33 +0000, stut...@gmail.com (Stuart) wrote: ....... >As in the example script I've posted above you can refer to the current >working directory with a single period (.), but this is still relying on the >current working directory being what you expect it to be.
Thank you! This is what I had been looking for all along. I dimly remembered some such trick, but it had become lost in the detritus at the back of my mind. But why the obsession with avoiding getcwd()? When my site is loaded the current directory is always the root directory of the page, and as I never change directory I can rely on it staying there. (And, incidentally, since getcwd(), dirname(__FILE__), etc, all return the complete path including system dependent information, if I really didn't know the current directory it would not be a trivial task to determine what was the local root.) For a couple of years I have been using getcwd() to determine whether or not I am running on my local PC (if I am the path will start with 'D:'). If I am running on the local PC I load various editing and other private facilities, otherwise I omit them. This is done in such a way that there is nothing to indicate that anything is either missing or has been omitted. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
