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[RESOLVED] include() don’t find the file

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Jun 14.2008

Hi all!

I’m having a headache over this… I try to include a local php file, but it fails silently. If I dump the file with file_get_contents() it looks totally correct, though.

[CODE]include(“/absolute/path/to/file.php”); //won’t work

eval(file_get_contents(“/absolute/path/to/file.php”)); //works as expected[/CODE]

What am I not seeing??? I guess it’s something obvious.

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@NogDogJun 14.2008 — Try something like this to see if it's a config issue.
[code=php]
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
include '/absolute/path/to/file.php';
?>
[/code]
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@legendxJun 14.2008 — require() would also stop the page from working all together but I can't remember if it would print an error with error_reporting turned off.
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@turborakettiauthorJun 15.2008 — Thanks for your advice! It put me in the right direction and the problem is solved, even though it was a really rediculous error... I followed NogDog's suggestion, but it gave only notices on the screen. Finally I installed the php-cli package and found a silly parse error in my file.php by running php -l file.php at prompt. The error didn't show on my local test server (due to slightly different version of php?).

It seems that if I include() a file that won't parse, it silently ignores it and goes on. According to the include() manual at docs.php.net that is the behaviour of PHP prior to 4.3.5. Strange, 'cause I use PHP5...

Lastly, I can't explain why my eval(file_get_contents()) test above would work. I must have been mistaken.

All the same, thanks for replying!
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