note 31301 added to function.realpath

OK, after weeks of research and coding and testing, I finally have the "absolute path" answer everybody has been looking for. These functions have been tested and work in both UNIX and Windows environments. Here's what they do: mapPath: Takes a file and figures out the relative path from the document requesting it. basePath: Takes the output of mapPath and gives you the document root folder absolutePath: Takes a file and uses the previous functions to append the base path to it. Then if it's in a windows environment (where realpath would not return a folder starting with /, it changes the forward slashes to back slashes. If you want an absolute path, just use function mapPath($file) { if (substr($file,0,1)=="/"){ $file = substr($file,1); } $currentPath = dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]); if($currentPath=="/") $Path = "./"; else $Path = str_repeat("../", substr_count($currentPath, "/")); return $Path.$file; } function basePath() { return realpath(mapPath("/")); } function absolutePath($file) { $file = basePath().$file; if(substr(basePath(), 0, 1) != "/") $file = str_replace('/', '\\', $file); return $file; } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+31301 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+31301 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+31301