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plugins_url() function accepts plugin slug or file path to build URL for.

I have following directory structure:

/wp-content/mu-plugins/someplugin/css/file.css
/wp-content/mu-plugins/someplugin/includes/file.php

I need to build URL to file.css in file.php. I can't pass __FILE__ because that will be one level too deep. 

plugins_url('css/file.css', __FILE__ )

I can pass __DIR__ to get correct level and it seems to work, but it's not documented as allowed and I am not sure there isn't something to bite me later with this.

plugins_url('css/file.css', __DIR__ )

So, is this adequate? Any better way to build URL for these conditions?

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I would save the main plugin file in a global variable and use that everywhere, certainly in included files. So $wpse15731_file would end with mu-plugins/someplugin/someplugin.php, and it doesn't matter that my code is in includes/file.php or somewhere else. – Jan Fabry Apr 27 '11 at 11:23
@Jan Fabry main stuff not up to me, I just merge new chunk into larger project – Rarst♦ Apr 27 '11 at 11:32

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__DIR__ is rather new and not always supported. Use dirname( __FILE__ ).

plugins_url() is using …

$folder = dirname(plugin_basename($plugin));

… so yes, it is safe.

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Probably, but the main question - is it safe to pass directory path instead of file path at all to this one? – Rarst♦ Apr 27 '11 at 10:30
Oops, I completed my answer. – toscho♦ Apr 27 '11 at 10:36
@toscho that just moves question level deeper - plugin_basename() is supposed to take file path as well. – Rarst♦ Apr 27 '11 at 10:46
@Rarst A directory is just a special file. Looking at the code for plugin_basename() I don’t see anything that may break if you pass a directory. – toscho♦ Apr 27 '11 at 10:51
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As long as the second parameter you pass to plugins_url ends with yourplugin-dir/somethingelse[/], dirname() can chop off the /somethingelse part, and plugins_url gets yourplugin-dir as it needs. So it does not matter whether somethingelse is a file or a dir, it doesn't need to exist. – Jan Fabry Apr 27 '11 at 11:58
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