ID:               9673
 Comment by:       cameron at prolifique dot com
 Reported By:      vvo at geocities dot com
 Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         Scripting Engine problem
 Operating System: RedHat Linux
 PHP Version:      4.3.2
 New Comment:

No, not necessarily a bug...just a very illogical and painful behavior
for the include & require functions when using relative paths.

It's like having a compass that points north in relation to wherever
you started your trip, not where you're standing now. Not much use. If
you knew where you started, why would you need a compass? If a relative
include path isn't relative to the script calling it, what's the use of
a relative include path?

I never expected that the hardest part of moving from ASP to PHP would
be include file references, but considering this behavior (still
happening in 4.3.4), it appears to be.

Luckily, there appears to be a workaround:

[2 Sep 2003 8:48am CEST] mathieu dot messe at urssaf dot fr 

A workaround found at http://fr.php.net/manual/fr/function.include.php
is to use

require(dirname(__FILE__) . "\..\second.php");


Previous Comments:
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[2004-04-05 08:50:44] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RTFM. There is no bug here.


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[2004-04-02 16:03:57] chapwest at hotmail dot com

I have no idea what this means in regard to my sight.  Michael

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[2004-04-01 18:36:07] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip



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[2004-04-01 18:32:42] vvo at geocities dot com

setting version to 4.3.2

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[2004-04-01 18:31:04] vvo at geocities dot com

Not clear to me why the issue status was changed to "Bogus". As far as
I can tell multiple people have same issue.

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