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iloveitaly on 02/28/11

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02/28/11 05:18am

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// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091107/how-to-join-filesystem-path-strings-in-php
function join_paths() {
    $args = func_get_args();
    $paths = array();
    foreach($args as $arg) {
        $paths = array_merge( $paths, (array)$arg );
    }
 
    foreach($paths as &$path) {
        $path = trim( $path, '/' );
    }
 
	// remove empty elements from the array
	$paths = array_filter($paths);
 
	// make sure if the path was originally an absolute path that it is kept that way
    if(substr( $args[0], 0, 1 ) == '/' ) {
        $paths[0] = '/' . $paths[0];
    }
 
    return join('/', $paths);
}

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