[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16457: Issues with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR

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#16457: Issues with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
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 Reporter:  grandslambert      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General            |     Version:  3.0.4
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback  |
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Comment (by dd32):

 > The plugin registers a menu icon, which uses an object variable for the
 Plugin URL which is built using DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. This works OK on *nix
 based machines, but NOT on Windows.

 DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is the filesystem separator, Not a HTTP Separator, As
 such, attempting to use it in a string which is used as a URL ''will''
 cause problems.

 Core doesnt convert /, rather, in many places it converts "\\" to / in
 order for a consistent path environment, You cant do str_replace() on
 strings which have mixed separators, nor strpos() etc, which causes havoc
 with certain functions, When you take into account that WordPress itself
 is using / in all the paths it hard-codes, it becomes even more of an
 awkward environment on windows.

 Like scribu said however, Show us the code! We might need to add some
 win32=>linux path format sanitization in a few more places.

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