Re: Is there a way to un include a file

No there is not, because an included file *executes* at the time it is included and is then done. Any memory-resident objects (function/class definitions, variables, etc.) that it defies then exist until you make them un-exist (with unset() for variables or, well, you can't with functions and classes AFAIK). Include files are libraries. They are not functions. What you're looking for is a function. Don't try to use include files as functions. Therein lies pain. On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:18 am, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > Is there a way to un include a file once it has been included in a > script. > My concern is where two php files might be included in another php > file they might have code or variables that conflict. I am thinking > of including files with different names but follow the same pattern > of code and variables but may have different values for variables > or different versions of the same function. > If there is not a specific function for un including a file (I have not > seen any indication from my text books that there is), it seems like > it would be nice to have one. > Meanwhile I will be doing some experimentation. > Thanks in advance; > Jeff K -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson