note 55825 added to function.realpath

None of the functions provided here worked for me. All of them somehow had the problem with pathes like '../../downloads/bar/../foo/..' or didn't provide relative paths. So I coded my one that justs removes '.'-dirs from the paths and simplifies stuff like 'dir/..' function SimplifyPath($path) { $dirs = explode('/',$path); for($i=0; $i<count($dirs);$i++) { if($dirs[$i]=="." || $dirs[$i]=="") { array_splice($dirs,$i,1); $i--; } if($dirs[$i]=="..") { $cnt = count($dirs); $dirs=Simplify($dirs, $i); $i-= $cnt-count($dirs); } } return implode('/',$dirs); } function Simplify($dirs, $idx) { if($idx==0) return $dirs; if($dirs[$idx-1]=="..") Simplify($dirs, $idx-1); else array_splice($dirs,$idx-1,2); return $dirs; } I just wonder why all the other solutions are so complex and that mine so simple, because in general the problem of simplifieng isn't that hard to solve. Well, I hope that there aren't any cases on which my solution fails. Otherwise, feel free to improve :D ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55825 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55825&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55825&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55825&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55825&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55825&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55825&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55825&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php