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Re: Frustrated with PHP?s "include"
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| Chung Leong 2004-07-24, 8:55 pm |
| "steve" <UseLinkToEmail@dbForumz.com> wrote in message
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> I am quite frustrated with php’s include, as I have spent a ton of
> time on it already... anyone can tell me why it was designed like this
> (or something I don’t get)?
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> The path in include is relative NOT to the immediate script that is
> including it, but is relative to the top-level calling script.
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> In practice, this means that you have to constantly worry and adjust
> paths in includes, based on the startup scripts that call these
> lower-level scripts.
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> Why is the include path not simply relative to the script that is
> immediately including?
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As I've explained before, it's because include/require in PHP4 is a runtime
operation.
See earlier thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ernys
hev
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| "Chung Leong" wrote:
> "steve" <UseLinkToEmail@dbForumz.com> wrote in message
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> of
> this
> is
> adjust
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> As I’ve explained before, it’s because include/require in
> PHP4 is a runtime
> operation.
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> See earlier thread:
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> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ernys
hev
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Chung, thanks for the link. I visited the thread, and it is obviously
a concern with others as well!
I quote you:
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The fact that it’s an runtime operation makes a big difference.
Suppose I
write a function that include a file:
function CustomInclude($path) {
include($path);
echo "<!-- including $path -->";
}
And suppose I place this function in
/chung/utilities/useless/functions.php.
When I pass a relative path to this function in some project, I
certainly
wouldn’t want the path to be relative to the file containing the
function.
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Can you explain the above. I am having a hard time with it. The main
argument was about why php designers did it this way, and that is my
focus. You are saying that it had to be done this way.
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