How can i get the PHP magic constant __FILE__ work with Eclipse and PDT

Question

Lately when i was debugging some PHP file with XDebug (under Eclipse on Ubuntu) i came across a strange behaviour:

print(__FILE__);

resulted in

Answer 1

I know it is an old question. I solved by assigning it to a variable, then it works fine!

$file = __FILE__;
include dirname($file) . '/../whateverfile.php';