I wrote a function that searches for a file within the include_path.
Here it is:
function ppcIncludize ($path) {
// check for absolute path
if ($path[0] == "/" || $path[1] == ":") {
if (file_exists ($path)) {
return $path;
}
return false;
}
$includePath = get_include_path();
foreach (explode (PATH_SEPARATOR, $includePath) as $directory) {
$tmpPath = "$directory/$path";
if (file_exists ($tmpPath)) {
return $tmpPath;
}
}
return false;
}
This function only makes sense if the parameter given is a relative path
to a file or folder and as this is not always the case I first check if
it's an absolute path. So for unix systems it's quite easy, just need to
check for / at the beginning, but on windows I am not sure as I don't
use and have never developed under Windows. However as far as I know a
absolute path starts with a drive letter e.g. C followed by a :. So I
just check for the : . I am not a 100% sure if this works, so may
anybody test it for me or at least tell me if I am write with my
assumption about windows path names.
Thanks!
Jakob
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Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0
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