[FX.php List] The skinny on includes

[Dale Bengston]

I use require_once for including classes such as FX.php: my pages will stop processing if vital classes are missing. I use include_once for headers and footers and things like that. I don't give much thought to microseconds of speed difference between include and include_once.

Dale

On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Anders Monsen wrote:

> I also use require_once, for the sake of functionality far more so than speed.
> 
> Anders Monsen
> 
> On 6/22/11 4:54 PM, Steve Winter wrote:
>> 
>> I always use require_once, since I only ever want to include anything once, and as anything I'm 'including' will contain essential functions, I need the entire thing to fail if it doesn't happen...
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Steve
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>> On 22 Jun 2011, at 22:51, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> So what about include vs. include_once? What do you use when you do FX apps? 
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>>> On Jun 21, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Anders Monsen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> There are other things to consider aside from speed.
>>>> 
>>>> include will continue after a fatal error, but require will die after a fatal error.
>>>> 
>>>> Anders Monsen
>>>> 
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