New to PEAR -require_once / include_once is strange...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just started taking a look at PEAR, at it sounds really interesting. However, there's one thing in the documentation that baffles me: require_once "Auth.php"; I could not understand how that worked, and whether or not it would work. Further delving led to this: ini_set("include_path", '/var/www/www.example.com/includes/' . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get("include_path")); At this point, I've got some vague idea about how require works with files when it has no parenthesese, but I'm still confused on why exactly it works: If I were to install a PEAR package outside of this include directory, would I have to point my include to that file? Why does simply saying the first statement work? Thanks in advance for the help. - -- Edward Z. Yang Personal: edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com SN:Ambush Commander Website: http://www.thewritingpot.com/ GPGKey:0x869C48DA http://www.thewritingpot.com/gpgpubkey.asc 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCQJK0qTO+fYacSNoRArYfAKCGaFT5AbLYkfvpZnpklQs1wo6uFACbBlbK o1j9rjlcB6/ouv8MaGk6IhI= =YjQL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----