RE: [PEAR-DEV] include vs require

It was my understanding that require_once was made part of the PEAR coding standard to prevent files from being re-included when dependencies got hairy. -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.com] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:40 PM To: Mika Tuupola Cc: Fabien MARTY; Alexey Borzov; pear-dev@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] include vs require On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Mika Tuupola wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Fabien MARTY wrote: > > > Note the use of include_once AND CERTAINLY NOT REQUIRE_ONCE !!! > > Note that after 4.0.2 include and require are identical > except the way how they handle failure. So using include > in conditional blocks does not seem to aply anymore. > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.require.php Note also that include/require are faster than their include_once/require_once counterparts, so if you are pretty sure you won't be including a file multiple times by mistake, just use the include/require version. -Rasmus -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php