Bah, I hit the reply to sender again (sorry for the duplicate, Nathan). Here is my reply for everyone else.
require and include are the same, except require will throw a fatal error if there is a problem with the file, whereas include will try to continue through. I usually use require, so there will not be anything else processed if I cannot get the file for some reason. Also, I use require_once/include_once for most of my file inclusions to make sure files are not trying to be included more than once. So to answer your question, if you need this file no matter what, then run a require. If you would still like to continue even if there is a problem with the file, then use include. Then add _once if there is any possibility of including the file twice, and you do not want the file to be re-included. Which command is determined by what you need/want from the file. Craig Jackson Web Developer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nathan Lane Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:44 AM To: UPHPU Discuss Subject: [UPHPU] Do you include,require or something else custom PHP libraries? Do you include, require or something else custom PHP libraries? By custom PHP libraries, I mean PHP files, containing functions and classes that I've created. For example I have a PHP file containing multiple custom Exception classes, and I want to use those exceptions in my other class libraries, so how would I go about doing that properly? -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
