note 60411 deleted from function.realpath by nlopess

Note Submitter: john (at) juracid.co.uk ---- I found realpath stopped working when I moved to a shared hosting server. I was using it to determine relative paths between files, basically changing paths like: user/stuff/things/../items/file.htm to user/stuff/items/file.htm Since I don't specifically need realpath for this (in my app), I used the following regex bodge to delete the ../ and the preceeding folder from the string: { $path = eregi_replace("[^/]*/..?/","",$path); } Hope someone finds this useful! Note: Before anyone asks why you'd have that dumb path in the first place, it's part of a larger script that re-links HREFS in documents to be relative to the script's location not the page. There's probably a much nicer way to achieve this, but what the hell.