note 77752 added to function.dirname
| From: | joel at joelpittet dot com | Date: | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:06:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 77752 added to function.dirname | ||
| Groups: | php.notes | ||
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This is silly:
dirname(dirname( dirname( dirname(dirname( dirname( dirname(__FILE__))))))); // This is rediculous
function recursiveDirName($file, $x){
if($x > 1) return recursiveDirName( dirname($file), $x-1 );
return $file;
}
This is much easier:
$file = recursiveDirName(__FILE__, 7);
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