diff --git a/system/helpers/path_helper.php b/system/helpers/path_helper.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30d26d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/helpers/path_helper.php
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+<?php  if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
+/**
+ * CodeIgniter
+ *
+ * An open source application development framework for PHP 4.3.2 or newer
+ *
+ * @package		CodeIgniter
+ * @author		ExpressionEngine Dev Team
+ * @copyright	Copyright (c) 2006, EllisLab, Inc.
+ * @license		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/license.html
+ * @link		http://codeigniter.com
+ * @since		Version 1.0
+ * @filesource
+ */
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * CodeIgniter Path Helpers
+ *
+ * @package		CodeIgniter
+ * @subpackage	Helpers
+ * @category	Helpers
+ * @author		ExpressionEngine Dev Team
+ * @link		http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/xml_helper.html
+ */
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Set Realpath
+ *
+ * @access	public
+ * @param	string
+ * @param	bool	checks to see if the path exists
+ * @return	string
+ */	
+if (! function_exists('set_realpath'))
+{
+	function set_realpath($path, $check_existance = TRUE)
+	{
+		// Security check to make sure the path is NOT a URL.  No remote file inclusion!
+		if (preg_match("#^(http:\/\/|https:\/\/|www\.|ftp|[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})#i", $path))
+		{
+			show_error('The path you submitted must be a local server path, not a URL');
+		}
+	
+		// Resolve the path
+		if (function_exists('realpath') AND @realpath($path) !== FALSE)
+		{
+			$path = realpath($path).'/';
+		}
+	
+		// Add a trailing slash
+		$path = preg_replace("#([^/])/*$#", "\\1/", $path);
+	
+		// Make sure the path exists
+		if ($check_existance == TRUE)
+		{
+			if ( ! is_dir($path))
+			{
+				show_error('Not a valid path: '.$path);
+			}
+		}
+	
+		return $path;
+	}
+}
+
+?>
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diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index bf31475..48e2a03 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
 		<ul>
 			<li>Modified xss_clean() to be more intelligent with its handling of URL encoded strings.</li>
 			<li>Added $_SERVER, $_FILES, $_ENV, and $_SESSION to sanitization of globals.</li>
+		    <li>Added a <a href="./helpers/path_helper.html">Path Helper</a>.</li>
 		</ul>
 	</li>
 </ul>
diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
index 1936cd1..e3558f7 100644
--- a/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
+++ b/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
@@ -256,8 +256,7 @@
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="#top">Top of Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="inflector_helper.html"> Inflector Helper</a>
-</p>
+Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="path_helper.html"> Path Helper</a></p>
 <p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Copyright &#169; 2007 &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p>
 </div>
 
diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/path_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/path_helper.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc80425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/user_guide/helpers/path_helper.html
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+
+<title>CodeIgniter User Guide : Inflector Helper</title>
+
+<style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style>
+<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' />
+
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/user_guide_menu.js"></script>
+
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' />
+<meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' />
+<meta name='robots' content='all' />
+<meta name='author' content='ExpressionEngine Dev Team' />
+<meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' />
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<!-- START NAVIGATION -->
+<div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div>
+<div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle.jpg" width="153" height="44" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div>
+<div id="masthead">
+<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%">
+<tr>
+<td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 1.6.1</h1></td>
+<td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+<!-- END NAVIGATION -->
+
+
+<!-- START BREADCRUMB -->
+<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%">
+<tr>
+<td id="breadcrumb">
+<a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> &nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;
+<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> &nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;
+Path Helper
+</td>
+<td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide&nbsp; <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" />&nbsp;<input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<!-- END BREADCRUMB -->
+
+<br clear="all" />
+
+
+<!-- START CONTENT -->
+<div id="content">
+
+
+<h1>Path Helper</h1>
+
+<p>The Path Helper file contains functions that permits you to work with file paths on the server.</p>
+
+
+<h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
+
+<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
+<code>$this->load->helper('path');</code>
+
+<p>The following functions are available:</p>
+
+
+<h2>set_realpath()</h2>
+
+<p>Checks to see if the path exists. This function will return a server path without symbolic links or relative directory structures. An optional second argument will cause an error to be triggered if the path cannot be resolved.</p>
+
+<code>$directory = './../../etc/passwd';<br />
+echo set_realpath($directory);<br />
+// returns &quot;/etc/passwd&quot;<br />
+<br />
+$non_existent_directory = './../../path/not/found';<br />
+echo set_realpath($non_existent_directory, TRUE);<br />
+// returns &quot;/path/not/found&quot;<br />
+<br />
+echo set_realpath($non_existent_directory, FALSE);<br />
+// returns an <strong>error</strong>, as the path could not be resolved</code>
+<h2>&nbsp;</h2>
+</div>
+<!-- END CONTENT -->
+
+
+<div id="footer">
+<p>
+Previous Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="html_helper.html"> HTML Helper</a>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+<a href="#top">Top of Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="security_helper.html">Security Helper</a>
+</p>
+<p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Copyright &#169; 2007 &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p>
+</div>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html
index 5a02ee3..cb9bf3d 100644
--- a/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html
+++ b/user_guide/helpers/security_helper.html
@@ -113,12 +113,11 @@
 
 <div id="footer">
 <p>
-Previous Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="inflector_helper.html"> Inflector Helper</a>
+Previous Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="path_helper.html"> Path Helper</a>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="#top">Top of Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="smiley_helper.html">Smiley Helper</a>
-</p>
+Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="smiley_helper.html">Smiley Helper</a></p>
 <p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Copyright &#169; 2007 &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p>
 </div>