note 77753 deleted from function.dirname by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:00:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 77753 deleted from function.dirname by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: joel at joelpittet dot com
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This is silly:
dirname(dirname( dirname( dirname(dirname( dirname( dirname(__FILE__))))))); // This is rediculous
function recursiveDirName($file, $x){
if($x > 0) return recursiveDirName( dirname($file), $x-1 );
return $file;
}
This is much easier:
$file = recursiveDirName(__FILE__, 7);