PHP 4.0 Bug #7710 Updated: include'ing doesn't work properly

ID: 7710 Updated by: zeev Reported By: brozen@torah.org Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Assigned To: Comments: This is in fact a documentation issue. PHP 4.0 changed the behavior of require(), and each separate file must now be parsable by itself. It's a result of a fundemental change that took place between PHP 3 and 4, and this behavior will remain as is... You'd have to find an alternative way of doing what you want (which should be fairly easy). Doc team: The documentation for require() is no longer close to being accurate for PHP 4.0 in general, and PHP 4.0.2&later in particular... It's basically just like include() today, except it can't fail, and would bail out if it does. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 05:31:18] brozen@torah.org index.php3: <? require "header.php3"; ?> sid is set <? require "footer.php3"; ?> header.php3: <? if (isset($sid)) { ?> footer.php3: <? } else { echo "sid not set"; } ?> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 05:28:02] brozen@torah.org This is not a documentation issue. Read this again before you respond so quickly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-09 09:52:30] sniper@php.net Please read this manual page carefully: http://www.php.net/manual/function.require.php --- Changed to Documentation problem as I couldn't find the incompatibilities list (for PHP 3 vs. PHP 4) from the manual. --Jani --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-09 01:45:37] brozen@torah.org This bug is also reported at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=75695 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-09 01:42:19] brozen@torah.org Please take a look at this: (php3) http://zeraim.torah.org/~cblack/testdir/index.php3 http://zeraim.torah.org/~cblack/testdir/index.php3?sid=3 Now, try these: (php4) http://terumah.teamgenesis.com/~cblack/index.php3 http://terumah.teamgenesis.com/~cblack/index.php3?sid=2 Precisely the same code. PHP on zeraim incorporates the header & footer and then parses all as one, while on terumah it is attempting to parse the header & footer as if they were independent of the file into which they are included. Or in other words, PHP3 used to incorporate a 'require()ed' file without doing any work on it, and then parsed the whole thing together. So you could have an IF statement in the header [ if (...) { ] that ended in the footer [ } ]. No longer! That's why the same code is generating parse errors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online. Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7710