I think includes are recursive, so each gathers its own included items before being itself included. I don't think I have yet discovered the depth to which this works, nor do I deliberately construct elaborate tests, but I don't imagine it would be too difficult to investigate. -m On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Nestor wrote: > Robert, > > thanks for pointing that out but I am awared of the '.' and '..' > notation > since I have been working in the Unix/Solaris/Linux world for over 15 > years. My questions was more in the line of WHY does the $path > displays > the directory name where the include php file is located instead of > the > directory name of the file that is doing the call to the INCLUDE > statement. > > Thanks, > > Nestor :-) PHP Data object relational mapping generator http://www.metastorage.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/