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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:42:11 -0400
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To: Dennis Birkholz <dennis@birkholz.biz>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFE to allow dirname($foo, 2)
From: scott@paragonie.com (Scott Arciszewski)

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Dennis Birkholz <dennis@birkholz.biz> wrote:
> 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
>
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What's easier to read and less likely to result in bugs?

require_once __DIR__ . '/../../../../autoload.php';

or

require_once dirname(__FILE__, 5) . '/autoload.php';

Scott Arciszewski
Chief Development Officer
Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com>