require_once fails if file already included

[Justin L. Kennedy]

I am having a problem with multiple includes.

A.php require_once on two files: B.php then C.php

C.php require_once on B.php again

Then I get a message:

Warning: main(../../B.php): failed to open stream: No such file or
directory in
/home/jkennedy/public_html/foo/php/secure/common/A.php on line
1

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '../../B.php'
(include_path='/home/jkennedy/public_html/foo/php/secure:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/php/Smarty-2.6.2/libs:/home/jkennedy/public_html/foo/_php/secure/PEAR')
in /home/jkennedy/public_html/foo/php/secure/common/A.php on
line 1

If I comment out the second require_once of B.php in C.php, the error goes
away and I still get the variables defined in B.php, so I know it is being
included.

My question is why is it failing in the manner that it is doing? From
what I could tell in the manual require_once was supposed to do nothing if
it was already included. And why the "Failed opening", as if the file
didn't exist?

I am using PHP 4.3.4.

--
Justin L. Kennedy
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: jk289@prism.gat ech.edu

[anima]

Re: require_once fails if file already included

As far as I understood require_once() fails if already included but
include_once() does not.

Hope this helps,
- Dan Morris

[Colin McKinnon]

Re: require_once fails if file already included

anima wrote:
[color=blue]
> As far as I understood require_once() fails if already included but
> include_once() does not.
>[/color]

erm...not on my PHP.

The OPs error was:[color=blue]
> Warning: main(../../B.php): failed to open stream: No such file or
> directory in
> /home/jkennedy/public_html/foo/php/secure/common/A.php on line
> 1[/color]

Which kind of suggests that A is in a different directory than C.

Try using paths relative to root (i.e. absolute) or a named include
directory.

HTH

C.

[Allan]

Re: require_once fails if file already included

If you are using some variables to define the path, they might be
changed during your includsion. So check that.