thedigitalmachine ~ # ls -ld /spiceflow
drwxrwxr-x 7 m apache 4096 Aug 28  2011 /spiceflow
thedigitalmachine ~ # ls -ld /spiceflow/dune
drwxrwxr-x 12 m users 0 Mar 23 11:54 /spiceflow/dune
thedigitalmachine ~ # ls -ld /spiceflow/dune/raid
drwxrwxr-x 12 m users 0 Apr 22 21:56 /spiceflow/dune/raid
thedigitalmachine ~ #


m@thedigitalmachine ~/development/Reusable/PHP/scrap $ cat test.php
<?php

    echo realpath('/spiceflow/dune'); echo "\n";
    echo realpath('/spiceflow/dune/raid'); echo "\n";

    if (!is_readable('/spiceflow/dune'                      )){ echo "nodune\n"; }
    if (!is_readable('/spiceflow/dune/raid'                 )){ echo "noraid\n"; }

?>
m@thedigitalmachine ~/development/Reusable/PHP/scrap $ php test.php
/spiceflow/dune

noraid