Req #42516 [Com]: __FILE__ resolves symlinks

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42516&edit=1 ID: 42516 Comment by: michael at zedeler dot dk Reported by: michael at zedeler dot dk Summary: __FILE__ resolves symlinks Status: Not a bug Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.4.7 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree that this isn't a bug. I filed it as a change/feature request. Please revert. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-23 19:01:16] pajoye@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php It is required by require_once and include_once, along other things (realpath cache). It always been like that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-23 17:36:39] ale dot comp_06 at xox dot ch On development server I often have symlinked directories to common libraries. It would be wonderful to have an option for the behavior of __FILE__ and allow it to return the non resolved path if the developer wishes so. Generally speaking, having some paths automatically "resolved" and some not, is very disturbing. As far I can tell, all paths should be unresolved and one should use "resolve_path()" to get the "real" path. A central switch should allow to get all the paths resolved if one wants so (or the other way: the default being the paths being resolved and the switch makes them unresolved). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-15 07:43:47] daniele dot segato at gmail dot com This bug was open since 2007 would you mind assigning it to someone for fixing or discuss why you are leaving it open? maybe someone out there can help you thank you ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-06 17:28:55] bjori@php.net I don't know why this was assigned to me ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-08-20 09:56:33] clicky at erebot dot net Also, the DOCUMENT_ROOT workaround only works in case you're dealing with a website. It's completely useless in case you're working from a terminal (eg. some unit tests run through PHPUnit). +1 on having this behaviour changed (maybe as a second magic constant as other proposed, so as not to break backward compatibility for __FILE__). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42516 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42516&edit=1