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visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
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of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
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Thank you for your interest in PHP.

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I have search for this bug for so long, I waited the new version 5.2.1 and it still has this problem.

All the search on google I made with those errors, actually  give me web site that are not working and display those errors... so I think it's a bug... At least in the documentation since I found nothing.

It is working with php 5.1.5 not with 5.2.x using the exact same config file (php.ini).

It's like php 5.2x is not chdir to the script dir when running the script. 

Information about this should be included into the php upgrade documentation (from 5.1x to 5.2x). I have looked at many bugs like #30881 but it's too old.. my problem is it was working with version 5.1.5.

It is still not working... what did change from 5.1.5 to 5.2 that can cause that?

Although I have '.' in include_path = "/usr/local_9/opt/php/lib/php:/php/includes:."
it is not opening file when preceded by ./

for one example in phpBB it's define $phpbb_root_path = './'
and it does not work unless I redefine it to 
$phpbb_root_path = '/some/absolute/path/' then it work.

Again it was working in 5.1.5 and not in 5.2.0, it is a bug, dot in search path is no longer working.

Thank you for this bug report. To properly diagnose the problem, we
need a short but complete example script to be able to reproduce
this bug ourselves. 

A proper reproducing script starts with <?php and ends with ?>,
is max. 10-20 lines long and does not require any external 
resources such as databases, etc. If the script requires a 
database to demonstrate the issue, please make sure it creates 
all necessary tables, stored procedures etc.

Please avoid embedding huge scripts into the report.

Here is the error, While it is not working in a user directory it does in the web root directory.

=== file info.php ===
<?php
include('./include.inc');
include('include.inc');
phpinfo();

?>

=== file include.inc ===
allo...
<?php
/* allo
 *
 * nothing really */
?>

-----

Warning: include(./include.inc) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/lepage/HTML/info.php on line 3

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './include.inc' for inclusion (include_path='/usr/local_9/opt/php/lib/php:/php/includes:.') in /home/lepage/HTML/info.php on line 3
allo...
and then the php_info() output.


==
I found odd that I have to code since I am a sysAdmin trying to update php to latest, I am not a php coder and therefore it should be easier for SysAdmin to update php to the latest...

note that if I use 
  include('/home/lepage/HTML/include.inc');
it does work while using 
  include('./include.inc'); 
does not work.

It was woking fine in php-5.1.5 and not in php-5.2.0 nor php-5.2.1, I see in change log :

- Removed current working directory from the php.ini search path for CLI and re-added it for other SAPIs (restore to pre 5.1.x behavior). (Edin)

may be it was not well restore... I don't know. Can you please help me fix this. it cause many problem with user installed phpBB and phpAlbum.

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.2-win32-latest.zip

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

I have the very same problem with php5.2-200703060530 and Solaris 9
(php5.2-200611160530 did not had this problem).

I am loosing fate in the php team. They have no test bench or what?
No longer looking for '.' in the path is a pretty serious stupid bug.

I was looking every where for a solution only thing I found looking for those keyword where site that are actually down..!

I was even told here it's not a bug, I had to do coding to prove that include ./file does not work.

hakkarainen, thank for tesing the latest version for me, I have no more time to test all the latest php crap.

Feel free to donate a Solaris 9 machine to me.
Until then you'll have to test release candidates yourself.

Do you mean this dot search path bug is only a problem on Solaris ?

About the donation, yes I am willing to give you a working Sun system with Solaris. Contact me for the donation.

>Do you mean this dot search path bug is only a problem on Solaris ?
Exactly.
Solaris is a system with broken everything, including realpath() and other quite vital utilities.
On other (working) systems it does work just fine.