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Does PHP have an equivalent to ASP's Server.MapPath() function, which retrieves absolute file paths?

Nov 12th, 2002 20:38
Juan Carlos Gonzalez, grandmaster plarmz,

If you have for example a file in ../files/bar.txt and the real path 
is d:/cvs/temp/files/bar.txt you can get this information using:

$real_path = realpath("../files/bar.txt"); // this will return 
d:/cvs/temp/files/bar.txt