[TYPO3-team-core-v5] Getting rid of DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR reloaded

[Malte Jansen]

Bastian Waidelich schrieb:

>     public static function combinePaths(array $paths) {
>         $combinedPath = '';
>         foreach($paths as $index => $path) {
>             $path = self::getUnixStylePath($path);
>             if ($index == 0) {
>                 $path = rtrim($path, '/');
>             } else {
>                 $path = trim($path, '/');
>             }
>             $combinedPath.= $path . '/';
>         }
>         return rtrim($combinedPath, '/');
>     }
> 
> you can pass one or more paths to this function and it will take care of 
> slashes and returns a merged Unix style path without trailing slash.
> Some examples:
> 
> array('') --> ''
> array('tmp') --> 'tmp'
> array('tmp', 'cache') --> 'tmp/cache'
> array('tmp/cache', 'FLOW3') --> 'tmp/cache/FLOW3'
> array('/var/tmp/', '/FLOW3/MVC/') --> '/var/tmp/FLOW3/MVC'
> array('C:\\WINDOWS\\Temp\\', '/FLOW3/MVC/') --> C:/WINDOWS/Temp/FLOW3/MVC'
> 
Hi,

IMO a path should always end with a slash and if function should be 
added the pathes in the array should be UnixStyle, so the function will 
be faster. Normally you'll have UnixStyled pathes. Only a few PHP 
function will return backslashes on windows.

Cheers,

Malte