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Doc Bug #18630 require_once is case sensitive
Submitted: 2002-07-29 14:53 UTC Modified: 2002-11-01 02:43 UTC
From: dparks at verinform dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.2.1 OS: Windows NT 4.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-07-29 14:53 UTC] dparks at verinform dot com 
require_once('bah.php');
require_once('BAH.php');

Will "require" bah.php twice. I realize this makes sense on a case sensitive file system, but on Windows (NTFS, I guess) or Mac OS X (HFS+) it can be a surprise. Users should really use case consistently, but sometimes a search and replace will change case or something (that's what happened to me).

I'm not sure this behavior should be changed; it would be nice if it was documented, though.

Sorry, I can't confirm this happens in a newer version of PHP!

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 [2002-07-29 16:58 UTC] goba@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the
CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation 
problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/.
In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show
up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites.
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
 [2002-11-01 02:43 UTC] alan_k@php.net 
this also affects 4.2.2 (and probably 4.2.3)
 [2003-03-09 23:01 UTC] csaba at alum dot mit dot edu 
This is documented quite clearly, but this behaviour on Windows is just SO WRONG.

I vote (for all it counts) that the behaviour be changed.

Csaba Gabor from New York
(PHP 4.3 on Win 2K / Apache 2.0.43)
 
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