changing / into \ ;)

[bunker]

Simple question.. i have this code:

$uploaddir = get_setting('absolutepath').'/'.$imgdir.'/'.$filename;

And this only works on Linux/Unix.. How could I change the code so the / is a \ and it works on Windows?

Thx

[bubblenut]

DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant instead of the '/' would make the code more portable. To make the change accross many files I'd use a unix shell script.

for file in $(ls *.php)
do
  sed "s/'\/'/DIRECTORY_SEPERATOR/g" $file > tmp;
  mv tmp $file;
done

[bradgrafelman]

Heh.. nice unix shell script. Probably only works in unix though, and we're talking about a Windows issue! :p

bunker - why not just reverse the slashes?

$uploaddir = get_setting('absolutepath').'\'.$imgdir.'\'.$filename;

[bubblenut]

a. Granted, but there's always cygwin. Also, the concept is what's important, this could be done just as easily with a php script.

b. Your sollution would still mean having to go through all the files which use slash as the directory seperator and replacing them with a backslash. Also, that leaves you with exactly the same issue should you ever what to port the code back to unix. If you use the DIRECTORY_SEPERATOR constant you never have to worry about the issue again.