Re: Mixing eval() with include/require

"Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams" wrote: > Try: > > <?php > function Test($id) > { > for ($i=0; $i<1000; ++$i) > include("test$id.inc"); > }; > ?> > > include()s can be dynamic that way; AFAIK require()s can't. The problem is that the code in the include file is being used to process each line of an input file, and that input file will have 100,000 lines or so, so I need to reduce the overhead as much as possible. The method you suggest will re-read the include file on each parse, which is slower than reading it once and building a function out of it. It also has the interesting side effect that if you change the include file part way through the process, the results also change part way through (not good in this case). The workaround I'm using at the moment puts function headers into the include file, so test1.inc becomes function testfunc1() { /* previous contents of include file here */ } Test() then has include_once('test1.inc') in it. I had wanted to avoid this method (it is too inflexible) but it works quite well.