PHP transform absolute path into relative path (string difference)

The context
I needed to transform an absolute path, to a relative one.
IE: I had a

$path1 = "/var/www/classifieds/Includes/configs"

(this was the location of the php script that was executing), and a

$path2 = "/var/www/classifieds/images/my_images"

. From those two paths, I needed something

like $path3 = "images/my_images"

which could be translated into something like

"The difference between the two paths - the relative path, instead the absolute one"

.


The solution

Write a for loop that identifies the common characters of the two strings, and then str_replace them with "":

for ($i = 0, $common_path = "", $path1 = dirname(__FILE__) ; ($i < strlen($path1)) && ($path1[$i] == $path2[$i]); $common_path .= $path1[$i], $i++ ){ }

$new_val = str_replace($common_path, "", $path2);

Hope you liked it - if you have other nice to see code, you are welcome to post it here

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