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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:44:08 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: HEAD, include(_once), bug in variable declaration
From: tony2001@phpclub.net (Antony Dovgal)

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:39:10 +0100
Pierre-Alain Joye <paj@pearfr.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:27:56 +0100
> paj@pearfr.org (Pierre-Alain Joye) wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Having the scripts pasted below:
> > 
> > include_once fails to declare the variable 'foo'. Replace include_once
> > by include and it works. I got the same behavior using require and
> > require_once.
> 
> To be precised: it fails to declare the variable on the 2nd call. The
> 1st call works.

because it doesn't really include this file on the 2nd call.

[quote]
include_once() should be used in cases where the same file might be included and evaluated more than once during a particular execution of a script, and you want to be sure that it is included exactly once to avoid problems with function redefinitions, variable value reassignments, etc.
[/quote]

thus, this is expected behaviour.

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Antony Dovgal aka tony2001
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