<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Gets absolute path to file</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="splfileinfo.getperms.html">SplFileInfo::getPerms</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="splfileinfo.getsize.html">SplFileInfo::getSize</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.splfileinfo.html">SplFileInfo</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="splfileinfo.getrealpath" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">SplFileInfo::getRealPath</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.2.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SplFileInfo::getRealPath</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets absolute path to file</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getrealpath-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SplFileInfo::getRealPath</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> This method expands all symbolic links, resolves relative references and returns the real path to the file. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getrealpath-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getrealpath-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the path to the file. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getrealpath-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3935"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>SplFileInfo::getRealPath()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/..//./../../'</span><span style="color: #007700">.</span><span style="color: #0000BB">__FILE__</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getRealPath</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SplFileInfo</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'/tmp'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$info</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getRealPath</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output something similar to:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> string(28) "/private/tmp/phptempfile.php" string(12) "/private/tmp" </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-splfileinfo.getrealpath-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="splfileinfo.islink.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">SplFileInfo::isLink()</a> - Tells if the file is a link</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="splfileinfo.getperms.html">SplFileInfo::getPerms</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="splfileinfo.getsize.html">SplFileInfo::getSize</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.splfileinfo.html">SplFileInfo</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>