Question

My colleague and me are both working in a MVC system on the same controller. Problem is that we can’t edit the same file at the same time because we’re overwriting each others changes.

Is there a way to include methods into a class using the include() function?

Basically I want three files, controller.php his_file.php and my_file.php

Answer 1

U need a Versioning System like SVN to handle this conflicts and code loss or need a centralised system where you and ur colleague must place code after taking the latest code from each other, thats what versioning system do generally… you dont have to add any extra code load to acheive what you need this which would be again a bad practice.

As a single user the main advantages are

1. Automatic backups: If you accidentally delete some file (or part of
   a file) you can undelete it. If you change something and want to
   undo it, the VCS can do so.
2. Sharing on multiple computers: VCSes are designed to help multiple people collaboratively edit text files. This makes sharing between multiple computers (say your desktop and laptop) particularly easy. You do not need to bother if you always copied the newest version; the VCS will do that for you. Even if you are offline and change files on both computers, the VCS will merge the changes intelligently once you are online.
3. Version control and branching: Say you published some class notes as
   a pdf and want to fix some typos in them while simultaneously
   working on the notes for next year. No problem. And you only need to
   fix the typos once, the VCS will merge them to the other versions.
4. Tagging.
5. Working with collaborators even if they don’t have the
   VCS themselves. I can make a branch copy for my collaborator on my
   own system and simply copy in their corrections to that each time,
   then merge them into the main branch as if they’d been using the VCS
   all along. Keeps the advantages of using version control but without
   requiring all collaborators to use it.
6. Maintaining different versions.