# Retrorsum This is a simple thing that will search for a file traversing down from the current directory. This came about because I was thinking of how I could find the base directory of a project without guessing with `__DIR__."/../../../"` and without forcing an app/ directory or something. I wanted to find a way to find the base directory of an app from a class. At the moment it does not work if the path is a symlink. ## Usage ```php use Sikofitt\Retrorsum\Finder; $finder = new Finder('autoload.php'); define('BASE_DIR', dirname((string)$finder)); ``` or ```php define('BASE_DIR', dirname((string)(new Finder('composer.json')))); ``` Although this could set BASE_DIR as an empty string if it found nothing. ```php $finder = new Finder('composer.json'); if(true === $finder->isFound()) { define('BASE_DIR', dirname($finder->getPath())); } else { // Whatever your other method would be. } ``` ## License GPL-3.0