PHP 4.0 Bug #9673: Relative paths in require(), require_once(), include(), include_once()

From: vvo@geocities.com Operating system: RedHat Linux 7.0 PHP version: 4.0.1pl2 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: Relative paths in require(), require_once(), include(), include_once() Here is an example of how relative paths are currently resolved with cascading inclusions (command line is 'php /home/joe/a.php'): File '/home/joe/a.php': <?php # this include works as expected, # locating '/home/joe/include/b.inc' include_once( 'include/b.inc' ); ?> File '/home/joe/include/b.inc': <?php # this include will assume '/home/joe/c.inc', but # not '/home/joe/include/c.inc', as one may expect =( include_once( 'c.inc' ); ?> File '/home/joe/include/c.inc': <?php echo 'hello'; ?> The way all four functions [require(), require_once(), include(), include_once()] resolve relative paths is counter-intuitive and unproductive with large directory structures, because some trickery is required to fix this problem. Not to mention that it hurts to see a different behavior from C-preprocessor #include directives. If you don't believe me, then see comments to the include() function... -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=9673&edit=1