How to find the path of a specific file?

Good Day to all,

Ahm, does anyone here know how can i make a function that get the filepath of a specific file?

I want to create a function like this:
- getFilePath('A_file_with_an_unknown_path.inc');
then the function will return the path of the file with an unknown path/directory.

Is this possible? If not, can anyone tell me how can I be able to include a file with an unknown filepath/directory?

- require_once('???/???/???/A_file_with_an_unknown_path.inc');

Please help.

Thank you in advance.

 

You can't do it easily, you need to look in all directories above current for the searching file!

 

You could execute the command "locate" by running a shell:
<?php
$output = shell_exec('locate ' . $filename);
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>
This will return all results on the server with the path, but you'd have to parse them to figure out which one you want.

 

ow...i see... thank you very much for this...