ID: 9673 Comment by: php at arantius dot cjb dot net Reported By: vvo at geocities dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: RedHat Linux 7.1 PHP Version: 4.1.1 New Comment:
I'm sure I can get around this, but things really would be nice if this worked. Situation is a very modular web site, with many files to be included, some class definitions, and some other fuctions. Off of the root /, there is /classes and /plugins . A file in /plugins is included from a file in /, and depends on a file in /classes. In other words: /main.php includes /plugin/driver.php /plugin/driver.php includes /classes/Item.php But, within /plugin/driver.php, the statement require_once "../classes/Item.php" fails. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-07 20:36:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for taking the time to report a problem with PHP. Unfortunately your version of PHP is too old -- the problem might already be fixed. Please download a new PHP version from http://www.php.net/downloads.php If you are able to reproduce the bug with one of the latest versions of PHP, please change the PHP version on this bug report to the version you tested and change the status back to "Open". Again, thank you for your continued support of PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-05 00:33:02] vvo at geocities dot com I was happy for awhile, but eventually I noticed a problem with *some* relative paths (in version 4.1.1). Say, there is the main script 'test.php' and two other files, 'a.inc' and 'b.inc' (in subdirs): File './test.php': <?php require_once( 'include/a/a.inc' ); ?> File './include/a/a.inc': <?php require_once( '../b.inc' ); echo 'a.inc '; ?> File './include/b.inc': <?php echo 'b.inc '; ?> Running 'test.php' fails with: Fatal error: Failed opening required '../b.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/geeba/include/a/a.inc on line 2 This isn't intended, is it? Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-16 12:07:02] [EMAIL PROTECTED] include() (and the other functions in its family) will now also look in the current executing file's directory, so this issue should be resolved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-03-15 10:09:07] vvo at geocities dot com We are talking about all four functions here, not just include(). The resemblance of require() to the #include directive, as documented: <quote>The require() statement replaces itself with the specified file, much like the C preprocessor's #include works.</quote> If it's a "known issue", are there any plans to fix it? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-03-15 09:08:11] [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, PHP include() is in no way related or was promised to relate to C preprocessor directives, so no wonder it behaves differently. Now, all relative pathes are resolved against the current directory of the including script (which is the directory where it's located). This is a known issue. Use include_pathes in the meantime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/9673 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=9673&edit=1
