When you do an include statement, can you include another php file?

Like this:


include ("./main/body.php");

Yes you can, and PHP will automatically include its parsed output :)

just to be sure when you do that, to have the correct include path.

Yeah, also if you have multiple files with classes there is require_once function which will include each file only once so there will not be redeclarations of classes and functions because of multiple includes.

I recommand using require.

include will not return a error if the file isnt found, require will

Originally posted by Pavel
I recommand using require.

include will not return a error if the file isnt found, require will

it does doesn't it

many of times i have seen scripts say that it couldn't include the file cos it doesn't exist.

but still, require is nice

Actully your right, here is the quote from php/net

http://php.us.themoes.org/include/

The documentation below also applies to require(). The two constructs are identical in every way except how they handle failure. include() produces a Warning while require() results in a Fatal Error. In other words, use require() if you want a missing file to halt processing of the page. include() does not behave this way, the script will continue regardless. Be sure to have an appropriate include_path setting as well.

try to use include_once(); though, or require_once();

you can include any file and it will automatically go in output