Posted by Jason Barnett on 01/07/05 17:14

>
> Assumably, if includes were processed before the script was
> executed, it would show a syntax error in foo2.php. We ran

Good point about the syntax error.

> the test (v 4.2.1) and no error was returned, so that pretty
> much answers the question (READ: includes are not processed
> until they are called).
> Just out of curiosity, a lot of people had answers to this question, but
> I couldn't find a shred of evidence in the
> documentation. Did you do similar tests, hear from gurus, or something
> of like? Or did I just miss it somewhere?
>

Testing. In my case I was testing for user-defined classes rather than
parser errors (because PHP would have to parse an include'd or require'd
file in order to have the definition), but your example is probably
better than my own. Nice.


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