Case-inconsistency of PHP file paths on Mac / MAMP?

Question

I\'m developing a PHP program on MAMP, and just realized the following screwy behavior:

echo \"
PATH = \".dirname(__FILE__);
include \'include.php\         


        

Answer 1

I have had similar problems developing PHP on MAC OS X. You can format with a case sensitive filesystem but if you are using Adobe's design software you might run into trouble: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/392791

The real issue is that the file system that is said to be case insensitive is in actual fact partially case insensitive. You can create two files with names 'Filename' and 'filename' in the same directory but 'Filename' and 'filename' may point to both files: http://systemsboy.com/2005/12/mac-osx-command-line-is-partially-case-insensitive.html