include() question

seby

say I have index.php and I am including header.php, and at the same time I am including a global.php into index.php, shouldn't header.php also inherit the global.php file just because its included into index.php?

I have a function file that has a lot of vars, but when I include other pages into the index.php they don't inherit the script, any thing special i should do? I cannot include the function file into another file if its already included into the main index, (cannot redeclare) ..

last question, I have a weird problem with include paths,

normally, when you include() a page you do:

include("/home/public_html/page.php");

but for me that doesn't always work, I have to do:

include("http://www.mydomain.com/page.php");

what would cause this?, php v 4.2.3.

Weedpacket

include(URL) runs the specified script and then includes the result - it doesn't (for obvious reasons) insert the script source code itself.

So if the file being included doesn't generate any output when it's executed, that (nothing) is exactly what gets included.

The question that needs asking is therefore: "Why are you needing to include files by URL?"

seby

hmm, the problem is either i get errors or it doesn't include the file with the vars that I am including, it only works if I using the actual URL as the include path.. I don't know what would cause this.

I was thinking about recompling php but didn't want to go through that touble.

igneramos

I was having the same problem with the includes - for some reason using include('/some/file/path') tries starting in the current directory and the default include path, not the root. I use this workaround:

include($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/include_path')
or
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/include/path')

which seems to do the trick.

Now if I could only find someone to explain why heredoc syntax doesn't work under OS X...

seby

thanks... I'll try that. you know what I find weird, say I am including a file and they are both in the web root, I have to do:

include("../page.php"); for it to work. the ../ is making it seem that the file is one directory behind.

igneramos

That was exactly the problem I was having that led me to that workaround. Took me a while to figure out the problem, since I was learning PHP and working with very rusty HTML skills - so my assumption was that I was doing something wrong...sigh.

What doesn't kill you only makes you wish it had.

buck2bcr

I'm having this same type of problem. However it is not in a script I wrote and this problem effects alot of the files. I really don't want to plow through the code and add a bunch of ./ .

Anyone know how to get the script to use the base directory not the directory the script is in when called?

Buck

buck2bcr

I suppose I posted in haste. I did some more searching and found this link:

of which I now can put this at the top of the page and it solves my problem.

Thread with good info

ini_set( 'include_path', ini_get('include_path') .":". dirname(__FILE__)  );

Thanks

mcgruff

Re: include("/this_folder/that_folder/file.php") not working - try leaving out the first / ie: include("this_folder/that_folder/file.php").

If you've declared a bunch of vars declared in one included file they should be visible to other included files but ONLY ones which were included after it. Could that be your problem?