[#15018] - double backslash in configuration.php
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- 31 Mar 2017
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- Build: staging
- # 15018
Just noticed on my windows machine that the paths in configuration.php are being written with a double slash. Not sure but doesnt seem to be a problem
public $log_path = 'C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\joomla-cms-staging\\administrator/logs';
public $tmp_path = 'C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\joomla-cms-staging/tmp';
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Yeah as I said it seems to work fine it just looks odd
I think the reason is because backslash is a special character in PHP, so to prevent it in a string, we will have to have double backslash. So there is no problem with it and actually, double backslash is needed
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| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-03-31 12:32:26 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | mbabker |
PHP has all sorts of goofy behaviors with the backslash and it gets more goofy depending on the type of quoting wrapping the string. echo "\t" will print a tab character while echo '\t' prints out "\t" literally.
You'll see that double backslash notation a lot in code, especially dealing with namespaced classes (i.e. https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/libraries/vendor/joomla/registry/src/Factory.php#L49-L51). So it's perfectly fine.
thanks for clarifying and confirming
If I remember rightly, Windows ignores double baskslashes, so shouldn't be an issue.