[Solar-talk] Re: Solar_Path_Stack: finding absolute paths

[Andreas Ravnestad]

Paul M Jones wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:
>
>> On 10/26/07, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:
>>>     public function findAbsolute($file)
>>>     {
>>>         foreach ($this->_stack as $dir) {
>>>             $spec = Solar_File::exists($dir . $file);
>>>             if ($spec) {
>>>                 return $spec;
>>>             }
>>>         }
>>>         return false;
>>>     }
>>
>> well, i got what i needed but now looking at it the method has a bad
>> name. it doesn't look for an absolute path, only returns the absolute
>> path if found.
>>
>> it is used in a case where i need to inspect some properties (modified
>> date, size) of the file name returned by the stack.
>
> Hm ... what might a better name be?
>


Maybe lend from Unix and use something with "realpath"? (a common unix 
command to find absolute path)

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-Andreas