Posted by Toby A Inkster on 12/08/07 11:05

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> including a file which does not exist will not throw an exception.

My general method is:

$old_error_reporting = error_reporting(E_ERROR);
include 'Foo.php';
error_reporting($old_error_reporting);

This will include a file without issuing any warnings if it's missing.

And then you just perform a test to see if something that you know is
defined in Foo.php has successfully been defined. e.g.

echo class_exists('Foo') ? 'Foo.php found' : 'Foo.php not found';

Some will simply recommend checking to see if the file Foo.php exists
before including it, but thanks to the include_paths setting, that's
easier said than done!

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