[RESOLVED] Including PHP Files

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

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

Code:

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

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thanks

There's a gotcha here, though. Suppose:

a.php

Code:

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$global = 'hello, there';

include('b.php');

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

---

b.php:

Code:

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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.

so you'd need a

PHP Code:

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global $global 


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