Personally I use. <?php require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)).'/config.php'); I think it's what most people do. /James Dempster On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Iv Ray <pobox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi all, > > i need a way to get the path to the parent folder of the folder i am in. > one "dirty" way i found is this - > > require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . > ".." . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . > "config.php"); > > i can also explode() and reassemble all folders except the last, but this > looks also dirty... > > is there a direct way? > > iv > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
