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realpath
Returns canonicalized absolute pathname
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
string realpath ( string path )
realpath() expands all symbolic links and resolves references to '/./', '/../' and extra '/' characters in the input path. and return the canonicalized absolute pathname.
Return Values
Returns the canonicalized absolute pathname on success. The resulting path will have no symbolic link, '/./' or '/../' components.
realpath() returns FALSE on failure, e.g. if
the file does not exist. On BSD systems realpath()
doesn't fail if only the last path component
doesn't exist, while other systems will return FALSE.
Examples
Example 668. realpath() example
<?php
chdir('/var/www/');
echo realpath('./../../etc/passwd');
?>The above example will output:
/etc/passwd
See Also
| basename() |
| dirname() |
| pathinfo() |