note 38000 added to function.include

I just discovered a "gotcha" for the behavior of include when using the command line version of php. I copied all the included files needed for a new version of a program into a temporary directory, so I could run them "off to the side" before they were ready for release into the live area. One of the files with a new version (call it common.inc.php for this example) normally lives in one of the directories in the include path. But I did not want to put the new version there yet! So I copied common.inc.php into my temporary directory along with the others, figuring that the interpreter would find it there before it found it in the include directory, because my include path has a . at the beginning. When I tested it, everything was fine. But then I setup a cron job to run the script automatically every day. In the crontab I placed the full path of the script. But when it ran, it included the old version of my common.inc.php file out of the include directory. Interestingly, the other include files that only existed in the temporary directory were included fine. Evidently AFTER the include path is searched, the directory in which the main script lives is searched as well. So my temporary installation almost worked fine, except for the lack of the small change I had made in the common file introduced a bug. To make it work I use a shell script to start my php script. It contains a cd command into the temporary directory, then starts the php script. So "current directory" (the . in the include path) for a command line script is really the current directory you are in when executing the script. Whereas it means the directory in which the script lives when executing under apache. I hope this helps save someone else the hours it took me to figure out my problem! David ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+38000 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+38000&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+38000&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php