PHP4 -> PHP5: require does not check file directory anymore?

[Markus Ernst]

Hi

In my application I have lots of require statements that include files
residing in the same directory:

index.php requires:
require_once($_ SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/modules/cms/classes/page.php");

page.php requires:
require_once("c ommon_functions .php");

Now I try to install the application on a PHP5 server (Apache), and this
does not work anymore.

In the PHP4 -> PHP5 migration chapter of the manual I did not find any
notes on a change of the require/include behaviour, not checking the
directory of the calling file anymore; nor did I find it googling. So I
am not sure if it is an undocumented migration issue or just a setting.

I understand that I can use:
require_once(di rname(__FILE__) ."/common_function s.php");

But this means rewriting the whole application. Is there a way to change
this behaviour via ini_set()? (As I am in a shared hosting environment I
have no direct access to the php.ini.)

Thanks for hints
Markus

[Jari Jokinen]

Re: PHP4 -> PHP5: require does not check file directory anymore?

In comp.lang.php Markus Ernst <derernst@no#sp #amgmx.ch> wrote:
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> In the PHP4 -> PHP5 migration chapter of the manual I did not find any
> notes on a change of the require/include behaviour, not checking the
> directory of the calling file anymore; nor did I find it googling.[/color]

Maybe your PHP5 configuration file doesn't set same include_path option
than PHP4? You can add current directory (.) to include_path with this:

set_include_pat h(get_include_p ath() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '.');

--
Jari Jokinen
jari.jokinen@ik i.fi

[Markus Ernst]

Re: PHP4 -&gt; PHP5: require does not check file directory anymore?

Jari Jokinen schrieb:[color=blue]
> set_include_pat h(get_include_p ath() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '.');
>[/color]

Thank you, I tried this, but then it turned out to be something trivial:
there was an open_basedir restriction on the PEAR include path.

Though there was no including of a PEAR file at all, PHP seems to check
the include path directories and output an open_basedir error before
checking the directory the file resides in.

I am not quite sure about where this behaviour is set - anyway if this
is a new behaviour of PHP5 it should IMO be documented.

Markus