On 28 July 2011 13:36, Nilesh Govindarajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > On 07/28/2011 05:43 PM, Paul Halliday wrote: >> I have a few scripts that use "../location/file" >> >> Is this interpreted differently on some systems? >> >> Thanks. >> > > I have no idea about it, but I generally use realpath() to avoid any > such problems. Windows may have, because it uses backward slashes > instead of forward which are used in *nix (incl mac)
For PHP on Windows, the / is fine. Obviously, if you are going to be calling OS based tools from PHP, you'll need to realpath() or use \\ or DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
