note 75217 deleted from function.realpath by danbrown

From: Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:01:39 +0000
Subject: note 75217 deleted from function.realpath by danbrown
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Note Submitter: Sebastian ---- Who ever wrote the rp()-function. First of all, your function skips filenames or directories with "0" because you use == instead of === when comparing to an "empty" value. Second, the idea of realpath() isn't fixing useless "../" etc, but to resolve the full path of a relative directory/file or a symbolic link. So that if you run the script in '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/' and exec realpath('uploads/test.txt') the output becomes '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/uploads/test.txt' (as in the example) I also wonder why the implementations aren't using the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant and expect Unix.

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