note 116958 added to function.symlink

sym/hard linking i love to do it relative a lot but not that trivial when thinking wrong :-) manpage says: the target is the _linkname_ and from that point to create relative links successful is to start from the directory where the link should be created e.g.: /myfiles/now/here/ /myfiles/links/ chdir( realpath(dirname($target))); You need to create/find out the relativ path to the source, otherwise the absolut path will be used in a link. if you start to create the target path from the source eg: "/myfiles/now/here/../../later/" and links should go to /myfiles/later/ you need to use realpath( dirname() ) set the new location using chdir() and start from here to link to the source which is ../now/here/ This you can find out e.g.: when having the absolut path of source and target: $dirTo = realpath(dirname($to)); chdir($dirTo); $linkName = basename($to); $target = $dirTo . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $linkName; $srcFile = getRelativeDirectory($from, $to); //basicly a function which will find the from -> to, but in this case the from ist the target where you need to start. below you can find some examples how to split the path in chunks to find a relativ path ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 80.171.17.119 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.symlink.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/116958 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116958 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/116958 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php