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Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:57:29 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] nested includes fails?
From: kameshj@fastmail.fm (Kamesh Jayachandran)

Any reason why you want to use require_once with same filename with
different paths?
Why don't you set a include_dir as your e:\...\myapp\inc and just
require 'common.php'.

With regards
Kamesh Jayachandran



On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:49, Tumurbaatar S. wrote:
> A brief directory structure:
> 
> "e:\...\myapp\" - this my web apps root and it contains several
> subdirs:
> "e:\...\myapp\members\" - a normal, web shared subdir
> "e:\...\myapp\inc\" - an include subdir where are located all my
> include files and this subdir is not web shared
> 
> (though my Inetpub dir is located in C:, I use IIS's virtual app/dir
> located in a different volume E:)
> 
> The above "inc" subdir contains "common.php" which is used by
> all other script files located anywhere under app root and subdirs.
> So if a script is located in the "inc" subdir, then it may start with:
> 
> <?php require_once('common.php') ?>
> 
> If a script is in the root dir, then:
> 
> <?php require_once('inc/common.php') ?>
> 
> and if it is in other subdirs (e.g. "members"):
> 
> <?php require_once('../inc/common.php') ?>
> 
> Finally, when my script located in 'members' needs some
> include file from the "inc" dir, I include it in this manner:
> 
> <?php require_once('../inc/some_include.php') ?>
> 
> and I do not include "common.php" directly because
> "some_include.php" starts with:
> 
> <?php require_once('common.php') ?>
> 
> I.e. a rule is:
> a script does not include "common.php" if it includes
> some other include file because that include file already
> includes "common.php".
> 
> That works fine untill I included 2 and more files:
> 
> <?php require_once('../inc/some_include.php') ?>
> <?php require_once('../inc/other_include.php') ?>
> 
> where each of these include files includes "common.php".
> In this case, "common.php" is included in a calling script
> file 2 times, even "require_once()" is used. And this leads
> to a trouble.
> Currently, I use absolute pathes hoping that when my app
> moves to Linux/Appache, relative pathes will work normally.
> 
>