From: jtaal at eljakm dot nl
Operating system: linux
PHP version: 4.3.11
PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function
Bug description: relative include from symbolic linked file
Description:
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On my development server I have a directory:
/var/www/app
containing the file:
menu.inc
dbsettings.inc
and the symbolic links
db_mysql.inc -> /var/export/db_mysql.inc
subdir -> /var/export/subdir
In the directory /var/export:
db_mysql.inc
In the directory /var/export/subdir:
include.inc
The file db_mysql.inc has the following line:
require_once("dbsettings.inc");
The file include.inc has the following line:
require_once("../menu.inc");
What happens is that the include_path is ".", so the file ../menu.inc
cannot be found by include.inc
I tried to set the include_path to /var/www/app. This worked for the file
db_mysql.inc, but it didn't work for menu.inc. I tried to set the include
path to ".:/var/www/app", but then the file dbsettings.inc couldn't be
found.
I also tried "/var/www/app:/var/www/app/subdir" and lots of other
combinations.
On a release server the two directories are merged so there will be no
symlinks. (The problem I have does not occur on this server)
I googled lots of hours, but didn't find any thing useful.
I expected PHP to open the symlinked files as if they were actually
there.
Can I configure PHP to do so?
Reproduce code:
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/var/export/db_mysql.inc:
require_once('dbsettings.inc');
/var/export/subdir/include.inc:
require_once('../menu.inc');
/var/www/app/menu.inc:
$menu = array( ... );
/var/www/app/dbsettings.inc:
$host = 'localhost';
$user = '...';
...
symlinks:
/var/www/app/db_mysql.inc -> /var/export/db_mysql.inc
/var/www/app/subdir -> /var/export/subdir
Expected result:
----------------
I expected PHP to open the symlinked files as if they were actually
there.
Actual result:
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Warning: main(../menu.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or
directory in /var/export/subdir/include.inc on line 4
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '../menu.inc'
(include_path='/var/www/app') in /var/export/subdir/include.inc on line 4
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Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
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register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=dst
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Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33870&r=mysqlcfg
