Description:
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Tony,

    I tried to reply to the original ticket but your system is not remembering my password, 's00per' correctly.  I am certain I used that, because I pasted it in from notepad after saving it in a file with no newlines.

    Thank you for your help, but if your answer is correct, then my scripts should have worked.

You said:

"Files for including are first looked in include_path relative to the 
current working directory and then in include_path relative to the directory 
of current script."

The current working directory and script in my example was

(PROTECTED)

I appended to the include_path ./ws

This means that the include_once '../inc/incfile.php' which happened inside 
of ws/wsfile.php should have been looked at from the perspective of 
(PROTECTED)/ws at least once but it wasn't.

Did you look at the examples I provided you?

--Original Message--

Including a file using a relative path after INI SETTING the include_path
does not work.

Setting the include_path works, but but PHP does not use it correctly.

This is a major flaw in the include logic.

A full detailed example is listed under the "Reproduce code" section.



Reproduce code:
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[john@(PROTECTED) error]$ cat mainfile.php 
<?
$include_path = ini_get('include_path');

$include_path .= ':./ws:'; //this doesn't even work with an absolute path

ini_set('include_path', $include_path);

include 'ws/wsfile.php';

print "Hi!  I'm mainfile!\n";
?>
[john@(PROTECTED) error]$ cat ws/wsfile.php 
<?
include_once '../inc/incfile.php';

print "Hi!  I'm wsfile!\n";
?>
[john@(PROTECTED) error]$ cat inc/incfile.php 
<?
print "Hi!  I'm incfile!\n";
?>
[john@(PROTECTED) error]$ php mainfile.php 

Warning: main(../inc/incfile.php): failed to open stream: No such file or
directory in /(PROTECTED)/john/error/ws/wsfile.php on line 2

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../inc/incfile.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:./ws:') in
/(PROTECTED)/john/error/ws/wsfile.php on line 2
Hi!  I'm wsfile!
Hi!  I'm mainfile!

Expected result:
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Tony,

    Thank you for your help, but if your answer is correct, then my scripts should have worked.

You said:

"Files for including are first looked in include_path relative to the 
current working directory and then in include_path relative to the directory 
of current script."

The current working directory and script in my example was

(PROTECTED)

I appended to the include_path ./ws

This means that the include_once '../inc/incfile.php' which happened inside 
of ws/wsfile.php should have been looked at from the perspective of 
(PROTECTED)/ws at least once but it wasn't.

Did you look at the examples I provided you?

--Original Expected Result--

The INI SET works, but include_once, as well as the others, do not work
correctly.  It can't find the relatively included file...even though the
INI include_path is set.

The code should work because the include path has been set properly.  Even
the error output shows the right include path, but the include_once
directive just fails.

Actual result:
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[john@(PROTECTED) error]$ php mainfile.php 

Warning: main(../inc/incfile.php): failed to open stream: No such file or
directory in /(PROTECTED)/john/error/ws/wsfile.php on line 2

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../inc/incfile.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:./ws:') in
/(PROTECTED)/john/error/ws/wsfile.php on line 2
Hi!  I'm wsfile!
Hi!  I'm mainfile!