Replace PHP's realpath()

Question

Apparently, realpath is very buggy. In PHP 5.3.1, it causes random crashes. In 5.3.0 and less, realpath randomly fails and returns false (for the s

Answer 1

For those Zend users out there, THIS answer may help you, as it did me:

$path = APPLICATION_PATH . "/../directory";
$realpath = new Zend_Filter_RealPath(new Zend_Config(array('exists' => false)));
$realpath = $realpath->filter($path);