[RESOLVED] Including PHP Files

[Kasracer]

Can you include PHP files at any place in your code or do you have to do it at the top of the file?

[CornedBee]

At any place at all. Here's something I do:

function loadComponent($name)
{
  $class = $this->config[$name]['class'];
  include_once("$class.php");
  return new $class;
}

[Kasracer]

thanks

[CornedBee]

There's a gotcha here, though. Suppose:

a.php

$global = 'hello, there';

include('b.php');

function foo()
{
  include ('b.php');
}

b.php:

echo $global;

The first inclusion prints "hello, there". The second prints nothing. That's because PHP files are included as if the include statement was directly replaced by the contained code.

[penagate]

so you'd need a

global $global 

inside the function before the include('b.php').