Hi Marc, Personally, I never use require().. I've only used require because that seemed to be the norm in phpMyAdmin. So, in my thinking, everywhere I wrote require, it should have been an include (that is just how my brain works). Anyhow.. I don't fully understand phpMyAdmin because I have not spent the effort to. I have stong feelings about the include-require issue. It was so long ago that I came to a conclusion (that being that I don't use require in my projects and only use include), that it didn't even occur to me here. Jeremy -- Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: +393485323988 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "LINUX is obsolete" -- Andy Tanenbaum, January 29th, 1992 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, the following spilled from the mind of Marc Delisle:
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:19:48 -0400 From: Marc Delisle <DelislMa@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca> Reply-To: phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Phpmyadmin-devel] header.inc.php3 safty net
Hi Jeremy,
from the PHP manual:
require() is not actually a function in PHP; rather, it is a language construct. It is subject to some different rules than functions are. For instance, require() is not subject to any containing control structures.
Unlike include(), require() will always read in the target file, even if the line it's on never executes. If you want to conditionally include a file, use include(). The conditional statement won't affect the require(). However, if the line on which the require() occurs is not executed, neither will any of the code in the target file be executed. -----------------------
If I understand correctly the manual, this code won't work:
if (!defined('__HEADER_INC__')) require("./header.inc.php3");
Marc
jeremy brand a �crit :
Howdy all.
I have defined "__HEADER_INC__" in header.inc.php3 and also made the requires that require header.inc.php3 conditional.
Also, a slight programmer note: Anyone adding code to this project should, when requiring header.inc.php3, only do it if !defined('__HEADER_INC___').
Jeremy
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