note 44849 deleted from function.include by betz

Note Submitter: douglass_davis at earthlink dot net ---- The manual for include says: 1) Files for including are first looked in include_path relative to the current working directory and 2) then in include_path relative to the directory of current script however, #2 is not true if you are using a relative path, in addition, the include_path is not searched when using a relative path. I found this to be somewhat confusing. For example: lets say you have a library that many other files must use. The library is htdocs/mylib/lib_one.php lib_one attempts to include htdocs/lib_two.php: include('../lib_two.php'); // uses relative path In htdocs/index.php, I include lib_one.php. I expected lib_one to then include htdocs/lib_two.php, but that was not the case. I then found out that the only place that it looks for lib_two is in htdocs/../lib_two.php (aka Apache/ ). So the point: 1. when using relative paths, the include_path is not searched 2. when using relative paths, they are relative ONLY to the current working directory, not relative to the current script. 3. use include(dirname(__FILE__).'../lib.php'); when using relative paths, because include('../lib.php'); doesn't work as expected when the current script was included from a file in another directory (current working directory is not the same as directory of current script). I'm using PHP 4.3.7 on Apache 1 on Win XP Professional