From:             tayloj1 at uk dot ibm dot com
Operating system: 
PHP version:      Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type:     Documentation problem
Bug description:  include_path ignored if file starts with ./ or ../

Description:
------------
ref:  http://uk.php.net/include/ 

If the file for including starts with ./ or ../, include_path is not taken
into account.

The statement:
   "If filename begins with ./ or ../, it is looked only in include_path
relative to the current working directory. "

should be replaced with:
   "If the filename begins with ./ or ../, it is only looked for
relatively to the current working directory."

as demonstrated by the following experiment (tested on Windows and php
5.2.2):


Reproduce code:
---------------
Directory layout:

    \myScriptDir
        \a.php          <?php include './b.php' ?>

    \myWorkingDir
        \php.exe
        \php.ini        [...] include_path='include1;include2' [...]
        
Execute:
    \myWorkingDir> php \myScriptDir\a.php

Expected result:
----------------
Doc says: "it is looked only in include_path relative to the current
working directory"

Expected attempted file reads (if the documentation were correct):

    \myWorkingDir\include1\b.php
    \myWorkingDir\include2\b.php


Actual result:
--------------
Actual attempted file reads:

    \myWorkingDir\b.php

Result obtained by stepping through the code with a debugger (namely
_php_stream_fopen_with_path() in plain_wrapper.c) and confirmed with
processmonitor, a tool which can monitor filesystem activity
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx)

So files were only looked for relatively to the current working directory
and the include path was not taken into account.

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Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41486&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41486&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41486&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41486&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
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register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41486&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41486&r=php3
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