Re: Proposal for 2 new magic constants

On 23/05/2026 8:42 pm, php@s22.us wrote:

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the problem of having PHP return that information, since it already does so.  E.g. __DIR__ will return: /home/username/path/to/dir

This assumes your project code lives somewhere in a subfolder within $HOME. In many situations, that is not the case at all. For example, it could simply be /app. Or, as a result of a chroot, /home/username may not be exposed at all. Instead, __DIR__ would simply return /path/to/dir.

Perhaps a magic constant would be the wrong way to do it, but in my thinking, it would fit right in with __FILE__, __DIR__, etc.

If it were to fit in with __FILE__, then it should be a magic constant. But I do not think it fits there. It should be an environment variable because it belongs to the runtime environment. -- Regards, Jordi Kroon