PHP 5.3

[JGadrow]

Well, we're getting closer to an official release of 5.3. Did anyone else miss this little gem:

__DIR__

This new magic constant will do the exact same thing as:

dirname (__FILE__)

My fingers thank the PHP developers for shortening the amount of work they need to do to include a file

[maclof]

Oh sweet, will be using this then

[Tribal]

Lol.

Can wait, think about the saved bytes!

[Crazy-T]

Well, we're getting closer to an official release of 5.3. Did anyone else miss this little gem:

__DIR__

This new magic constant will do the exact same thing as:

dirname (__FILE__)

My fingers thank the PHP developers for shortening the amount of work they need to do to include a file

You can just include files like:

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<?php //for colors!!
include("filename.php");              //shorter!
include_once("filename.php");      //longer!

include(DIRNAME(__FILE__) .'/somefile.php');          //Even longer.
include_once(DIRNAME(__FILE__) .'/somefile.php');  //Even even longer!.

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'/somefile');               //even even even longer.
include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'/fomefile.php');  //100x longer lol.
I would just use

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<?php //for colors!!
include('Somefile.php'); or for database connection i would use require

[JGadrow]

Yes, you can include them that way. However PHP blows up if you're including a file that also includes another file if you don't include the absolute path to that file.

This is because PHP uses its internal path variable and doesn't reset it once inside of an included file to reflect the new location. Unless they're all in the same directory.