Make a path work both on linux and Windows

Question

How can I make sure that this path:

new Zend_Log_Writer_Stream(APPLICATION_PATH . '\logs\app.log')   

works both on linux and on windows?

Answer 1

In Linux, the path separator is /. In Windows, it is either \ or /. So just use forward slashes and you will be fine.

APPLICATION_PATH . '/logs/app.log' 

Answer 2

You can also use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant instead of \ or /. Usually you'll want to redefine it to have shorter name, like

define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR); $filename = APP . DS . 'logs' . DS . 'file.txt';