note 15236 modified in function.include by jeroen

Some of these comments make includes seem quite messy and difficult. This is not the case... Options do and have existed, at least for php4 users, to make a->b->c includes quite painless. You can absolute path everything with $DOCUMENT_ROOT or Change the include directory in php.ini or For virtual hosted sites with apache, add php_value include_dir ".:/path1:/path/two" inside your <VirtualHost> or <Directory> tags... [Editor's note: You can even add a 'php_value include_dir ".:/path1:/path/two"' in your .htaccess file, so this solution is also available if you don't have control over the server --jeroen] All these options make includes extremely simple. If you define paths, a simple include("whatever.inc") will search all the paths, in order, for whatever.inc http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php