Posted by Markus Ernst on 02/15/06 14:48

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("common_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(dirname(__FILE__)."/common_functions.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

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