note 33451 deleted from function.dirname by danbrown

Note Submitter: degoede at tomaatnet dot nl ---- Easy to have config functionality using dirname function. inc.config.php: =============================== /* UNC path to include file, plus trailing slash. Convert back-slashes to slashes, always, on linux there will be none to replace, but who cares. Use str_replace, as this is the fastest on simple replacements, according to php.net. */ $unc = str_replace( "\\\\", "/", dirname( __FILE__ ) . "/" ) ; /* Remove the UNC path to this file from the UNC path to the main php script that included this file, only keeping any subfolder names, relative to this file's UNC. */ $url = str_replace( $unc, "", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] ? $_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] : $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] ) ; /* Remove the value obtained from the calling php script's URL, to get the URL to this file.*/ $url = str_replace( $url, "", $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] ? $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] : $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["SCRIPT_NAME"] ) ; /* Make a general purpose configuration data array. */ $Config["root"]["unc"] = $unc ; $Config["root"]["url"] = $url ; $Config["dir"]["images"] = "images/" ; $Config["dir"]["include"] = "include/" ; /* use functions to keep the interface simple and, seperate interface from internal functioning. */ function get_fullpath( $type, $dir ) { global $Config ; $FullPath = $Config["root"][$type] ; $FullPath .= $Config["dir"][$dir] ; return ( $FullPath ) ; } function get_unc( $dir, $file ) { return ( get_fullpath( "unc", $dir ) . $file ) ; } function get_url( $dir, $file ) { return ( get_fullpath( "url", $dir ) . $file ) ; } some_file.php: =============================== include_once ( ../../inc.config.php ) ; include_once ( get_unc( "include", "inc.some_include.php" ) ) ; Now you only need to worry about a relative path once.