On 11 November 2005 21:21, Nathan Tobik wrote:

> I've always used:
> 
> fopen("C:\\dir\\dir\\file.txt");
> 
> on windows, I'm not sure how PHP interprets the slashes internally
> though... 

On Windows, "/" in filenames is internally translated by PHP to "\" -- which 
means you can write code that works on both Windows and *n*x using "/".  
*Really* portable code uses the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant, however.

Cheers!

Mike

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