[TYPO3-ect] PEAR extension praxis test

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi,

keep in mind that "realpath" will also resolve out symlinks that might
be in the way to the actual directory. This is why this cannot be used
in TYPO3-Core (or "sysext" or "ext" in typo3-core subdirectory) to find
out the current TYPO3 installations base directory, because it might be
a symlinked directory.

If there are no such obstables, I would use dirname(__FILE__), which is
there in PHP4 for as far as I remember. I have never heard about that
minimum requirement (works well in a still active PHP 4.0.6 installation).

Cheers,
Ernesto

Daniel Brüßler wrote: on 25.09.2007 17:28:

> thanks :-) I corrected it, just have to upload it.
> 
> I keep on using the TYPO3-constants.
> 
> ----
> 
> dirname has the minimum PHPversion 4.3.0, because there was a change
> with the path, or PHP 5.0.0 .
> 
> I found also this to get the relative path:
> $relativePath = basename(realpath(".."))
> 
> kind regards
> Daniel
> 
> 
>>  /var/www/dbsv/typo3conf/pear/PEAR
>> That is quickly fixed in line 20 of ext_localconf.php
> 
>> Today I discovered a really simple method to set pathes relative to the
>> current file, independent of the "back path".
>> $pearDir = dirname(__FILE__) . '/PEAR/';
>>
>> Could extension management haven been that simple since years?
>> Regards
>> Elmar