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Offline HGeneAnthonyTopic starter

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Can you use includes with magic constants and get a path which works in Windows
« on: March 16, 2010, 01:35:05 AM »
Sorry about the question I'm having a hard time explaining it in the allotted subject space.  I'm developing on Windows.  However, my server might be Linux, BSD, Windows, etc.  The problem is when I try to include a file I use magic constants like __DIR__, which returns D:\xampp\htdocs\ etc.  However, the rest of my path I use forward slashes so the path comes out like D:\xampp\htdocs\phptest/index.php.  I don't want to use back slashes since I plan to run this on other OSes and I don't want to have to change all includes back and forth.  Is there an apache setting which will always use forward slashes or a method you use to get around this issue?
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Re: Can you use includes with magic constants and get a path which works in Windows
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 06:59:28 AM »
Php internally converts any / to \ before it passes file paths to Windows. There is no need for you to use anything other than / in your code.
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