note 97729 deleted from function.include by danbrown

Note Submitter: rybadour at gmail dot com ---- Problems with including files inside of files included by other files (Tim describes this problem as well) originates from an inconsistency in PHP and how it handles including files. Given a file B that is included in file A, any time you include files in B and the path begins with "../" the path is no longer relative to B it is relative to A. (It sounds silly I know) I tested this in PHP 5.* and it's consistently the problems most people have with this. Note, there isn't a problem when your path does not begin with "../". Now, I have found a trick to fix this problem. And (although no offense to Tim and others who offered great solutions) there is a much more elegant way of making this work. Following my above example, with file A and B to fix the relative pathing do the following: 1. Create a dummy directory in the same directory as B (let's call it dummyDir) 2. Append "dummDir/../" to the beginning of include paths in B. 3. And now the path will work fine. Ex. originally in B: include("../lib/functions.php"); would not work if there wasn't a directory above A that contained a directory "lib". Now we do: include("dummyDir/../../lib/functions.php"); That will now work as intended.