PHP include ladder to find include path.

Posted on Monday the 10th of September, 2007 at 4:24 pm in Asides, Dev

I needed a way to be able to include particular files from files that are themselves included. because the working directory was not necessarily the same, so I needed a way to find what the actual include path should be. The following code snippet finds a specific folder or file and returns the ladder (relative path) to get to it.

function find_path($loc,$dir=0){
for($i = 0; $i <10; $i++){
if($dir){
if(is_dir($ladder.$loc)){
return $ladder;
break;
}
}elseif(is_file($ladder.$loc)){
return $ladder;
break;
}
$ladder .='../';
}
}
Use the following to copy and paste the code.
function find_path($loc,$dir=0){ for($i = 0; $i <10; $i++){ if($dir){ if(is_dir($ladder.$loc)){ return $ladder; break; } }elseif(is_file($ladder.$loc)){ return $ladder; break; } $ladder .='../'; } }