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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.

2. function find_path($loc,$dir=0){
3. for($i = 0; $i <10; $i++){
4. if($dir){
5. if(is_dir($ladder.$loc)){
6. return $ladder;
7. break;
8. }
9. }elseif(is_file($ladder.$loc)){
10. return $ladder;
11. break;
12. }
13. $ladder .='../';
14. }
15. }
16. Use the following to copy and paste the code.
    function find_path($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 .='../'; } }

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.