Include oddity

When using relative paths in a require() call, it's taking the base directory to be the "execution directory" and not the directory that the file is in. Is this expected/as designed? Should we just always use absolute paths? base dir1 dir2 dir3 in dir1/myclass.php4 require("../dir3/someinclude.h"); from dir2, run "php ../dir1/myclass.php4 and the require() is trying to now get ../dir1/someinclude.h from -dir2- instead of taking the base as of where myclass.php4 is actually located and doing the require() call from. I can't find any reference to this is the docs. Is this "as designed?" -Szii "absolute paths are your friends"