#36956 [Opn]: dirname returns \ for root /

ID: 36956 User updated by: e dot vandeoudeweetering at marcanti dot esprit-sg dot Reported By: e dot vandeoudeweetering at marcanti dot esprit-sg dot Status: Open Bug Type: Directory function related Operating System: Windows 2000 (5.00.2195) SP4 PHP Version: 5.1.4 New Comment: Again the same results, this time with php: C:\>php -v PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Aug 23 2006 16:35:53) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies Results: C:\>test.php C:\Temp : C:\\Temp C:/Temp : C:\/Temp C:\ : C:\\C: C:/ : C:\/C: \\server\share : \\server\share //server/share : //server/share /usr/local : /usr/local Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-05-22 06:45:45] e dot vandeoudeweetering at marcanti dot esprit-sg dot I used the latest release of php: C:\phptemp>php -v PHP 5.1.4 (cli) (built: May 4 2006 10:35:22) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies Still the bad results: C:\phptemp>test.php C:\Temp : C:\\Temp C:/Temp : C:\/Temp C:\ : C:\\C: C:/ : C:\/C: \\server\share : \\server\share //server/share : //server/share /usr/local : /usr/local ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-04-26 11:13:31] e dot vandeoudeweetering at marcanti dot esprit-sg dot I used: C:\phptemp>php -v PHP 5.1.3RC4-dev (cli) (built: Apr 26 2006 12:19:43) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies With the same result as before: C:\phptemp>test.php C:\Temp : C:\\Temp C:/Temp : C:\/Temp C:\ : C:\\C: C:/ : C:\/C: \\server\share : \\server\share //server/share : //server/share /usr/local : /usr/local ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-04-10 12:01:39] sniper@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5.1-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.1-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-04-04 11:58:35] e dot vandeoudeweetering at marcanti dot esprit-sg dot I did check the following documentation: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php dirname('c:/'); it returns c:\ (notice the backslash) the documentation says it should return c: suggest the following 7 examles: $dir = 'C:\\Temp'; print "$dir\t\t: ".dirname($dir).'\\'.basename($dir)."\n"; $dir = 'C:/Temp'; print "$dir\t\t: ".dirname($dir).'/'.basename($dir)."\n"; $dir = 'C:\\'; print "$dir\t\t: ".dirname($dir).'\\'.basename($dir)."\n"; $dir = 'C:/'; print "$dir\t\t: ".dirname($dir).'/'.basename($dir)."\n"; $dir = '\\\\server\\share'; print "$dir\t: ".dirname($dir).'\\'.basename($dir)."\n"; $dir = '//server/share'; print "$dir\t: ".dirname($dir).'/'.basename($dir)."\n"; $dir = '/usr/local'; print "$dir\t: ".dirname($dir).'/'.basename($dir)."\n"; The following output is generated: C:\Temp : C:\\Temp C:/Temp : C:\/Temp C:\ : C:\\C: C:/ : C:\/C: \\server\share : \\server\share //server/share : //server/share /usr/local : /usr/local The following output is expected: C:\Temp : C:\Temp C:/Temp : C:/Temp C:\ : C:\ C:/ : C:/ \\server\share : \\server\share //server/share : //server/share /usr/local : /usr/local As you see something is wrong! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-04-03 13:33:19] e dot vandeoudeweetering at marcanti dot esprit-sg dot Description: ------------ When using the function dirname, \ is returned for the root directory / This is what the documentation says: //after PHP 4.3.0 dirname('c:/'); // returns 'c:' Reproduce code: --------------- print dirname('/'); print dirname('C:/'); print dirname('C:\\'); //this function works Expected result: ---------------- / C: C:\ Actual result: -------------- \ C:\ C:\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36956&edit=1