Re: climb up the path

Richard Heyes wrote:

i need a way to get the path to the parent folder of the folder i am in. one "dirty" way i found is this - require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .

             ".."              . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .
             "config.php");

i can also explode() and reassemble all folders except the last, but this looks also dirty... is there a direct way?

There's nothing dirty about dirname(), and for your issue, just call it twice: dirname(dirname(__FILE__));

I called "dirty" the ".." in my example. Yes, dirname(dirname(__FILE__)); is the way to go - I was just too brainwashed and did not think I can apply it to a directory, too. Thanks, Iv