dirname output

[orca]

Well, I'm a bit a PHP newbie. However, if I want an output of dirname() on a windows system it only prints the path without / or \. The output looks sth like this:

l: apache groupapachehtdocsportal

What could cause this? Or is that dirname default? I didn't get the answer when browsing the manual on php.net

[Mark Hensler]

Try escaping the slashes with addslashes()..

[orca]

Thnx. That did the trick.