Question

I have the following code inside the body of my index.php page:

echo "Begin <br />";
include('test.shtml');
echo "Importing dbRead.php here <br />";
include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/dbRead.php');
echo "We have included dbRead.php here <br />";

The output on the page is:

Begin
Inside test.shtml
Importing dbRead.php here

The files are all in the same directory. What’s going on?

EDIT: dbRead.php is a class. It is parsed just fine by my WAMP server, but not the web server after I upload. It contains a single class with properly formed methods and a constructor.

Answer 1

As far as I see all the echos are executed before include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/dbRead.php');, but no echo output is visible after that. There are some possibilities, for example:

• in dbRead.php you use for example ob_start(); (see documentation), thus the echo is executed, but not sent to the browser,
• you have some error that terminates the script in dbRead.php, but you have error reporting turned off (see documentation),
• you invoked exit (see documentation) or die() (see documentation) within the included file,