odd problem: my script doesn't obbey a require once('foo.php')

foo.php works in commandline, but not with require_once

[guarriman]

Hi.

I've got two scripts: 'main.php' and 'foo.php'.

main.php:

print "hello";
require_once('foo.php');
print "bye";

foo.php

print "this is foo.php";

If I execute (via shell):
# php main.php
it works fine

If I execute
# php foo.php
it works fine

But If I access http://example.com/main.php,
I get "hello" and "bye", but not "This is foo.php"

Any similar experience?

[edited by: eelixduppy at 8:36 pm (utc) on May 11, 2007]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[jatar_k]

maybe a bad path?

from that example foo.php and main.php should be in the same dir, are they?

do you have display_errors turned off? maybe it's dying and you just aren't seeing the errors.

[guarriman]

I fixed it by changing 'foo.php' call with 'foo1.php' call (and creating a copy of 'foo.php' in 'foo1.php').

It's very very odd but it works.

main.php, foo.php and foo1.php are in the same directory.

[whoisgregg]

Probably a permissions issue. Pretty sure that when you run the command line, the script has the permissions of the user who executed the script. When you load a webpage, the script has the permissions of the much less privileged web user (typically apache or www).