If you are composing these on the fly, you could use http://php.net/dirname for each element in front of a "../" and wipe out the subdir and the "../" Or, perhaps something like: $url = preg_replace("|/[^/]/\\.\\./|", "/", $url); On Mon, December 4, 2006 9:11 pm, Graham Anderson wrote: > What is a good/accepted way to pass a relative or absolute path > into a clean url ? > > I could replace the relative url's slashes with another character, > but would love to know a cleaner less confusing way...if it exists > > > example url: > http://localhost/testscript/../image.png/jpeg/420000/0/ > > example php: > list($dummy,$relative_path,$type, $color, $cache) = explode('/', > $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']); > > > where: > $relative_path=../image.png > $type=jpeg > $color=420000 > $cache=0 > > > many thanks in advance > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
