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

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';