note 32804 added to function.include

Let's define some terms: /index.php ======== require("somewhere/included.php"); /somewhere/included.php ========= require("second.php"); /second.php ========= echo "hello world !"; The problem is the following: on windows system, with PHP 4.3.0, if you call included.php from somewhere different of "/", you will get a warning/error. A solution was told before, but wasn't clear enough for me, so I'm trying to re-explain this. Put absolute-path is generally not a bad idea, so we will use what I call 'semi-absolute path' using the __FILE__ constant. For each of your include(), do as following: include(dirname(__FILE__) ."\\..\bla\bla"); This is supposed to be equivalent to ".\..\bla\bla", but in fact it's NOT. The solution to our problem, is to put require(dirname(__FILE__) . "\..\second.php"); to avoid any problem when calling the script. Hope this helps ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+32804 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+32804&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+32804&report=yes