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Blorange2
Blorange2

Reputation: 9

Absolute paths in Mac and Windows

I have a PHP program that uses dom->save() with an absolute path.

Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/feed/ultrafeed.xml

I will be using this on both Mac and Windows machines so is there a way to create a path that is either relative or independent of the user's platform?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1281

Answers (2)

Richard Christensen
Richard Christensen

Reputation: 2166

$_SERVER ['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'path' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .'to'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. 'file';`

If you know where it is relative to the current file use __DIR__ instead f $_SERVER

Upvotes: 0

Oleg Dubas
Oleg Dubas

Reputation: 2348

Yes by using realpath()

Try this, for example you have a relative path:

$path = "feed/ultrafeed.xml";
$path = realpath($path);
echo $path;

This will give you C:\real\path\feed\ultrafeed.xml on Windows
And /real/path/feed/ultrafeed.xml on Unix.

Upvotes: 4

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