Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:87288 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13704 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2015 14:11:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 2015 14:11:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=dennis@birkholz.biz; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=dennis@birkholz.biz; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain birkholz.biz does not designate 144.76.185.252 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: dennis@birkholz.biz X-Host-Fingerprint: 144.76.185.252 mx01.nexxes.net Received: from [144.76.185.252] ([144.76.185.252:50899] helo=mx01.nexxes.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FF/00-12869-D1993B55 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:11:42 -0400 Received: from [137.226.183.192] (ip3192.saw.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.183.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: db220660-p0g-1@packages.nexxes.net) by mx01.nexxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B3CF48245E for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <55B3991A.4060107@birkholz.biz> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:11:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <55AF84C1.8070403@fedoraproject.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFE to allow dirname($foo, 2) From: dennis@birkholz.biz (Dennis Birkholz) Hi, Am 23.07.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Josh Di Fabio: > Now, most often, dirname(... dirname(__DIR__) ...) is used in application entry > points during the bootstrapping process. In my experience, it's most commonly > used in order to include an autoloader or some bootstrap file which itself is > responsible for including the autoloader. doesn't work __DIR__.'/../../' on Windows also? Why do you need dirname() here? Greets Dennis