problem with functions and paths

[harvey]

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

[Erwin Moller]

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