[eluser]ang89[/eluser]
Hi there!
My question is straightforward, but I do have something to explain. Please jump to the last paragraph if you don't want to bother my whole coding epics.
In CodeIgniter, when I try to resolve current directory by using
realpath("."), I always got the directory in which the gateway
index.php is located (in my case,
/webroot). Regardles the location of current file (model, controller, config, library), it's all the same.
But I came to a problem where I have to create another controller from within a library (I can explain why if you would like to know, but I think it's not important here). And from within the controller class, I have the following:
Code:
<?php
class Test_service extends Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
$CI =& get_instance();
$CI->firephp->log('The path inside Test_service controller: ' . realpath('.'));
parent::__construct();
}
}
Surprisingly, it outputs the location in which the file is located (
/application/controllers/services), not the /webroot !.
And the
parent::__construct off course gives an error because ... well, if you follow the trace you can find an
include_once(APPPATH.'config/autoload'.EXT) inside Loader class.
After a long and maybe irrelevant explaination, and my question is, how does PHP resolve current directory (".")? I thought it should be the directory of the first file in the chain of execution (index.php) ?
