include: does not include!

[hsn]

After enough experience with php coding, I realized that there are still many things I'm not aware of! One of my newest problems is as follows:
I have a webpage which has all its active files under www/web. Inside this folder, there is another folder www/web/pages/ which includes some php scripts. There is an include folder www/web/include for shared scripts between regular pages. I have faced two problems which I have never faced before.
1. Inside ~/pages, my sessions which have been set somewhere else don't work! echo $_SESSION['name'] prints nothing while session_start() is already executed. At the same time, the session works in www/web.

2. Inside ~/pages, I have included some files from ~/includes. These files are correctly included but when I attempt to access the functions or variables defined there, I get an error saying function could not be found!

Anyone has experience with these issues? Perhaps php has changed since I left php programming for a while. 🙂

[sneakyimp]

You might want to try [man]require[/man] instead of [man]include[/man]. If your error reporting on your server is turned off then a failed include might not report anything.

You might also want to check and make sure that you don't have duplicate versions of your included files which have different code in them or something. You may be including an old version of the file from a different location.