#20452 [Opn->Bgs]: Problems requiring/including when original file is a symlink

ID: 20452 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: pupeno@pupeno.com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux Mandrake 9.0 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: 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 When including a file, it is included based on the directory you are currently in. If that directory was /var/php/scripts/ , then all relative paths will be calculated based on that directory. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-17 00:17:26] pupeno@pupeno.com I don't have a 'working' on line example to show you this and I don't have posibilities to do it right now, I'm sorry, but I'll try to show you here what I mean with an example. Let's supouse I have one script in this file /var/php/scripts/index.php and I have a symlink to that file like this /var/www/htdocs/index.php -> ../../php/scripts/index.php and this file contains the following: <?php require("dir/include.php"); require("../dir/include.php"); ?> When I run it, for require("dir/include.php"); it tryes to include /var/php/scripts/dir/include.php (the relative path from the original location of the file) but for require("../dir/include.php"); it tryes to icnlude /var/www/dir/include.php (real path for /var/www/htdocs/../dir/include.php) (it is resolving the relative path from the symlink and not the original file). I'm not sure with behaviour is the right one, but this mix is not the right one for sure, I think. I hope it helps, if you need more help, just contact me. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-16 11:48:31] iliaa@php.net Could you show an example of what you mean? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-15 17:35:13] pupeno@pupeno.com I'm requesting a page, the file that is called is index.php, but this file is a symlink from somewhere else. When I require a file from index.php, if there's no '..' (dots) on the path (a relative path, but not going back), the relative path is from where the original file is, but if there are '..' on the path, the relative path is from where the symlink is (although php identifies the script as the original file in the error message). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20452&edit=1