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Doc Bug #32902 Docs question: is __FILE__ === realpath (__FILE__) always true?
Submitted: 2005-04-30 19:38 UTC Modified: 2005-05-02 14:42 UTC
From: mpb dot mail at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
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 [2005-04-30 19:38 UTC] mpb dot mail at gmail dot com 
Description:
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On this page:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php

There is a comment:

"mark at trilab dot ch 18-Apr-2003 10:44
Consider using
  realpath(__FILE__)
to get absolute paths."

However, it appears that on PHP 5.0.3 on FreeBSD realpath(__FILE__) is redundant.

It would be nice (for the sake of writing portable code) if the docs could say which versions of PHP remove symbolic links from __FILE__.  Perhaps they all do?  But then why would someone have added the comment?

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 [2005-05-02 14:42 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.

"Since PHP 4.0.2, __FILE__ always contains an absolute path whereas in older versions it contained relative path under some circumstances."
 
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