Posted by Erwin Moller on 06/19/07 08:43

harvey wrote:

>
> Can anyone tell me how PHP handles paths?
> Do all functions require fully qualified paths or can some use relative
> paths?
>
> I'm having a problem with a foreach/glob() at the moment but have others
> to sort out. Is it different for windows and linux?
>
> On Windows:
> if I do (using apache2)
>
> $path = 'c:\server\mydomain\';
>
> foreach (glob($path . "*", GLOB_ONLYDIR) as $folder) {
> dothis();
> }
>
> It all works fine but if I set $path as:
> $path = '../../../mydomain/';
>
> I get an:
> Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
> I've tried reversing and escaping the slashes with no luck.
>
> Is there a fixed rule for relative & fully qualified paths?
>
> Thanks

Hi,

I never used relative paths in glob.
Why not make a full path first of your relative path?

And also: Why not check first if your target directory is actually a
directory before feeding it to glob? Use function is_dir().

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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