perchten/truepath

Replace PHP's extremely buggy realpath()

php-truepath

Replace PHP's extremely buggy realpath(), _(*1)

Usage

Installation

Via Composer

Truepath is available on Packagist (perchten/truepath) and as such is installable via Composer., _(*2)

Add the following to your composer.json, _(*3)

{
    "require": {s
        "perchten/truepath": "1.*"
    }
}

Direct include

Clone or download from GitHub and include directly in your code:, _(*4)

require_once "path/to/truepath/truepath.php"

Code

It's just one simple function, and as such it is not namespaced, but loaded as a globally available function. So just use:, _(*5)

$truepath = truepath("some/possible/path")

Unlike PHP's realpath, this function does not return false on error; it returns a path which is as far as it could to resolving these quirks., _(*6)

This does not work on network resources including UNC and URLs. It works for the local file system only., _(*7)

Acknowledgements

All credit goes to Christian from this StackOverflow question. I'm just putting this up on some repos for easier access., _(*8)