How can I define the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR for both Windows and Linux platforms?
Solution 1
PHP accepts both \
and /
as valid path separators in all OS. So just use /
in your code
Solution 2
For convenience you can write define a shorter constant:
DEFINE('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
and then write your path as:
$path = 'www'.DS.'app'.DS.'index';
Or do I not understand your question?
Solution 3
Please see PHP Predefined Constants
Maybe it's already defined in your script, try echoing DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, see if it has any value
Solution 4
PHP understands '\' and '/' as path separators, regardless on the system you're on. I prefer to use '/' (the unix way) in all of my code. When you're on a windows box and there is a need to provide a full qualified windows/DOS path I'll have this simple, non destructive function
function dosPath($path){
return str_replace('/', '\\', $path);
}
Example:
$drive = 'C:';
$path = '/tmp/uploads';
echo dosPath($drive.$path);
echo dosPath($path);
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useCase over 1 year
Now I create a small PHP Application, here I have problem for using file path, because in Windows use this type location
C:\Some\Location\index
but inLinux /www/app/index
so when I define the path using this/
but when the application run in window machine it should be problem for this/
.So here I want to define the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR both Windows and Linux platform.