Posted by Colin Fine on 10/10/06 19:08

mark Bannister wrote:
> Newbie here.
> Site is on shared server Apache, PHP 4.x
> I am using modrewrite currently for some other things but I was
> wondering about includes in php files. They don't seem to pass through
> .htaccess and modrewrite. Is that correct? I have 3 days experience
> with .htaccess and modrewrite so I could well be doing something wrong.
>
> What I was trying to do is use a "fake" directory in all my includes
> that modrewrite would rewrite to the correct directory.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark B.

I'm not an expert of this area, but as far as I know PHP's 'include'
doesn't go outside PHP to the webserver at all, so it will not invoke
any server features.
The exception is if you use a full URL in the include, but that gives
other problems - if you want to include a PHP file in that way you have
to arrange that the server will serve PHP source (which it doesn't
usually do).

See http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

Colin

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