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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 .=&#039;../&#039;;
    }
}

This code is NOT user-input safe: any checks you do should be hard coded otherwise you might as well just give out your passwords.