PHP dirname returns symlink path

Question

Say I have a symlink from \'/one/directory/\' to \'/two/directory/\'.

If I echo dirname(dirname(\\__FILE__)), it returns

Answer 1

Use the readlink function? http://php.net/manual/en/function.readlink.php

You can check if it is a symlink with is_link: http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-link.php

if (is_link($link)) {
    echo(readlink($link));
}