On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Clancy <clancy_1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Something Stewart said the other day made me realise that there was a > fundamental error in > the way I was thinking about this question. I had been thinking that > opendir (.) opened > the root directory, and that paths such as Joe/Nurg.com were relative to > the root > directory, but I now realise that they are relative to the current > directory, whatever > that might be. (Yes; I should have known better, but there is an awful > swamp of burnt out > brain cells at the bottom of my brain.) a dot (.) denotes a current directory and double dot (..) denotes parent directory of the current in DOS/Windows/*nix File System. > > > So the question I should have asked was "When a web page is loaded, can I > rely on the CWD > being the directory containing index.php (or whichever file is actually > loaded)?" > > Thank you all for your assistance. > > >
