note 14925 deleted from function.realpath by aidan

Note Submitter: twadzilla{at}yahoo{dot}com ---- I have PHP4 running on Win2k IIS and consequently the $DOCUMENT_ROOT is not automatically defined by PHP. Since I often need to find the absolute path of a virtual path, I created a workaround function that acts like server.mappath() from ASP:<br> // relative path to virtual directory root $relative = str_repeat('../',substr_count($PATH_INFO,'/')-1); function mappath($path) { // transforms virtual or relative path to an absolute path global $relative; return realpath(substr($path,0,1)=='/' ? $relative.substr($path,1) : $path); }<br> Hope this is helpful to some of you.<br> > Dave [twadzilla.com]