[Xerte] Re: Problem with XOT file path

[Julian Tenney]

Yes, you can mix up \ and / in paths.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 30 November 2011 11:00
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Problem with XOT file path

windows usually resolves \\, \ and / when dealing with file systems
(from what I recall)

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Jenny.S <jennysong.ss at gmail.com> wrote:
> I put XOT files inside my main site under a
> subdirectory'library\includes\xot\', and I didn't use the XOT setup process.
> Instead, I write the config.php manually to point things to my site.
> Now I have problem config the path-- the root file path is with "\" while
> the XOT short pathes are with "/" , when joining the 2 pathes, I got wrong
> path. For example:
>
> define( 'XOT_DIR', substr(getcwd(),0,strlen(getcwd())-5) );
> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short = 'USER_FILES/'
>
>  $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_full =
>  $xerte_toolkits_site->root_file_path  .
> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short;
>
> The output is:
>
> 'D:\xampp\htdocs\testjet\library\includes\xotUSER-FILES/'
>
> so, I modified the full path to:
> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_full =
>  $xerte_toolkits_site->root_file_path  . '\\' .
> $xerte_toolkits_site->users_file_area_short;
> The output is:
>
> 'D:\xampp\htdocs\testjet\library\includes\xot\USER-FILES/'
>
> Seems not right. Is it how the thing supose to be, or should I use
> str_replace to change the '\'  to '/' ?
>
> Thanks for helping!
>
>
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