#33870 [NEW]: relative include from symbolic linked file

From: jtaal at eljakm dot nl Operating system: linux PHP version: 4.3.11 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: relative include from symbolic linked file Description: ------------ On my development server I have a directory: /var/www/app containing the file: menu.inc dbsettings.inc and the symbolic links db_mysql.inc -> /var/export/db_mysql.inc subdir -> /var/export/subdir In the directory /var/export: db_mysql.inc In the directory /var/export/subdir: include.inc The file db_mysql.inc has the following line: require_once("dbsettings.inc"); The file include.inc has the following line: require_once("../menu.inc"); What happens is that the include_path is ".", so the file ../menu.inc cannot be found by include.inc I tried to set the include_path to /var/www/app. This worked for the file db_mysql.inc, but it didn't work for menu.inc. I tried to set the include path to ".:/var/www/app", but then the file dbsettings.inc couldn't be found. I also tried "/var/www/app:/var/www/app/subdir" and lots of other combinations. On a release server the two directories are merged so there will be no symlinks. (The problem I have does not occur on this server) I googled lots of hours, but didn't find any thing useful. I expected PHP to open the symlinked files as if they were actually there. Can I configure PHP to do so? Reproduce code: --------------- /var/export/db_mysql.inc: require_once('dbsettings.inc'); /var/export/subdir/include.inc: require_once('../menu.inc'); /var/www/app/menu.inc: $menu = array( ... ); /var/www/app/dbsettings.inc: $host = 'localhost'; $user = '...'; ... symlinks: /var/www/app/db_mysql.inc -> /var/export/db_mysql.inc /var/www/app/subdir -> /var/export/subdir Expected result: ---------------- I expected PHP to open the symlinked files as if they were actually there. Actual result: -------------- Warning: main(../menu.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/export/subdir/include.inc on line 4 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '../menu.inc' (include_path='/var/www/app') in /var/export/subdir/include.inc on line 4 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33870&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=mysqlcfg