note 71446 added to function.include

The way PHP handles the ./ and ../ is totally counter intuitive. As said if the included file is preceded by a ./ and ../ it looked up from the current working directory. And that is defined by the of the EXECUTED script. That is the script that you specified in the url. So if your have a.php that includes include/b.php that includes ../extern/c.php, it will not do what you want. You can use extern/c.php instead if you never execute outside of the document root. For me that just will not cut it. Since I execute test suites if files are directly called, like in python. Here is my dirty trick that works, since I only have two levels of file hierarchy: set_include_path("../:./"); require_once("extern/c.php"); And here is an open question: Why are the included files not looked up relative from the file that includes them and then in the include path? This would be a behavior like in all other languages. ---- Server IP: 217.13.201.10 Probable Submitter: 85.180.86.83 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/71446 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71446 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/71446 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php