Question

Please enlighten me on this one. I tried editing the php.ini file, on the part where it says include_path:

include_path = ".;C:\php_includes\home_made"

After that I uncommented it,save it and restarted all services from wamp tray icon.

I have a bunch of home made classes on that folder. I’m imagining that I could just do something like this on every php file that I make. And I’ll be able to use the functions in those classes:

$strings = new strings();
echo $strings->clean('bla$#@D232)*/');

But I was wrong since it returned this error:

Fatal error: Class 'strings' not found in C:\wamp\www\dw_fs\phpinfo.php on line 1

What benefit did I actually get from including a path in php.ini. How do I use it? Please enlighten me.

Answer 1

The include_path just allows to include files without full path:

include("strings.php");   // instead of "c:/includes/strings.php"

What you wanted to use in your example is an autoloader in addition to setting the include_path:

spl_autoload_extensions('.php');
spl_autoload_register("spl_autoload");

Then you can instantiate the strings class without manually including the required class file.