[RESOLVED] retrieving path trouble

[leatherback]

Hi All,

I have a script which receives a filepath-name from a mod_rewrite. this can be anything from
"" to "/dire/dir2/page.php"

So I parse it, and see what I have, trying to get both the path and the filename seperately. However, if I do this:

$r_page   = getvar('p', '', 2);

// retrieve information about the path:
$filedetails = pathinfo($r_page);

if(($filedetails['dirname'] == ".") || ($filedetails['dirname'] == "..") || ($filedetails['dirname'] == "/"))
  {
  $filedetails['dirname'] = "";
  }

If I enter an empty string, the dirname returns "/", which should match the if statement. It doesn't however. In my query still the "/" shows up. I am not completely sure WHAT pathinfo() should return for a directory when only a filename is specified, or only a directory is specified. Where do I go wrong? Can I even use this on virtual paths? Or should I write a parser using an explode() routine?

Cheers,

Jelle

[leatherback]

Well... I dunno why I didn;t get it to work.
But here is a solution I used instead:

// ok, do magic on filepaths  

$pieces = explode("/", $r_page);
$path = "";
$file = "";

foreach($pieces as $folder)
  {
  if($folder <> "")
    {
	if($file <> "")
	  {
	  if($path == "")
	    {
		$path = $file."/";
		}
      else
	    {
    	$path = $path.$file."/";
		}
	  }
	$file = $folder;
	}
  }