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In the index.php you can find

if (function_exists('realpath') AND @realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) !== FALSE)
{
    $system_folder = str_replace("\\", "/", realpath(dirname(__FILE__))).'/'.$system_folder;
}

why not use

$system_folder = str_replace('\', '/',pathinfo(__FILE__,PATHINFO_DIRNAME)).'/'.$system_folder;

Is the pathinfo less trustworthy than realpath?

pathinfo() doesn’t actually verify anything with the file system, it just merely analyzes the string that is passed to it.

<?php
print_r(pathinfo('/no/where/file.txt'));
?>

/*
Output:
Array
(
    [dirname] => /no/where
    [basename] => file.txt
    [extension] => txt
    [filename] => file
)
*/

i think i found out why realpath is used

Since PHP 4.0.2, __FILE__ always contains an absolute path whereas in older versions it contained relative path under some circumstances.

From the PHP manual: Realpath expands all symbolic links and resolves references to ‘/./’, ‘/../’ and extra ‘/’ characters in the input path . and return the canonicalized absolute pathname.

As far as I know, pathinfo does not do that.