hi t!! strace is something i would have used.. but unfortunately, strace (at least as far as i can tell) doesn't work with web based apps... thanks -----Original Message----- From: Thodoris [mailto:tgol@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:42 PM To: Andrew Ballard Cc: bruce; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ability to find include files... On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:07 PM, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi list... starting to go through a debug/understanding session of a couple of php web apps. i'm wondering if there's any kind of tool/method that i can use to see which files are accessed/included/required when a given page is displayed.. this would allow me to quickly understand the "flow" of the apps. searching via google hasn't really turned up anything... thoughts/comments/pointers welcome. thanks! Yes. How about get_included_files(). http://www.php.net/get_included_files Andrew This of course shows the included files but if you *really* need to go much deeper (although this is probably an overkill) you could try tracing when the process opens a file using strace along with grep if you are in unix. -- Thodoris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php