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Sorry its not strictly geeklog related but its stopping me working on my plugin project. This is my first real php project so forgive me it this is a newbie question

I have the following code

$dir = dirname(__FILE__);
require_once($dir . '..\config.php';

For some reason php inists this evalutes to $dir ."..\\config.php"; - Im familar with the concept of special escaped characters like '\n' from c++ so I suspect it to be php magical quote problem.

I have checked php.ini magic_quotes_gpc,magic_quotes_runtime,magic_quotes_sybase are off
phpinfo() confirms this

I have wrapped the coded in the following lines

$X = ini_set (magic_quotes_gpc ,0);
$Y = ini_set (magic_quotes_runtime ,0);
$Z = ini_set (magic_quotes_sybase , 0);
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);

$X = ini_set ('magic_quotes_gpc' ,0 );
$Y = ini_set ('magic_quotes_runtime' ,0);
$Z = ini_set ('magic_quotes_sybase' , 0);

but none of them seem to stop it evaluating to "..\\config.php" - which the include statement then complains about.

Can anyone tell me the correct way of disabling this - Ive lost a whole day on this now :-(
Thanks For your help

Windows will work with forward slashes.

If you want to be pedantic:

Oh, and leave the parentheses off of require_once. It is not a function. It is a directive.

Thanks for the help. Once I get this plugin in working i can see its going to get rewrittem again from the ground upwards with what I have learned.

Then Im not too proud to admit I supsect somebodies going to tell me how I should have coded it :-) - still thats how you learn.

Once again thanks for the help