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 was using apache and I found that the __DIR__ of the executed file was the same one found in the DOCUMENT_ROOT of the apache config.

That means that if the apache config had

DocumentRoot /users/me/stuff/my_site

script from the question was printing:

PATH = /users/me/stuff/my_site (All lower case)

PATH = /Users/me/stuff/my_site (Mixed case)

And if the apache config had:

DocumentRoot /Users/me/stuff/my_site

script from the question was printing:

PATH = /Users/me/stuff/my_site (Mixed case)

PATH = /Users/me/stuff/my_site (Mixed case)

Which was much better.

If you encounter this problem, check the apache configuration taking into account that it's case sensitive.