Re: dirname(__FILE__)

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 23:48, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Wed Oct 16, 2002 at 07:3322PM +0200, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > > Right now, dirname(__FILE__) seems to be the only solution that works. > > Does it solve all the problems of people trapped in PHP environment > > where they can't change php.ini? > > I'm actually a bit afraid about the performance impact it might have > to have dirname(__FILE__) calls all around the place. The probably > best solution would be to have a new built-in constant (like > __BASEDIR__), but this would force every PEAR user to update to the > version of PHP that has introduced this feature ... Maybe someone can add information to the fray by actually comparing performance with and without dirname? - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb