PHP: List all includes

Question

I have a large complex PHP project made up of many PHP files.

Is there some function I can call in my code that will return a list of all included files?

Answer 1

get_included_files or get_required_files (alias of get_included_files)

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.get-included-files.php
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.get-required-files.php (Alias of get_included_files)

<?php
// This file is abc.php

include 'test1.php';
include_once 'test2.php';
require 'test3.php';
require_once 'test4.php';

$included_files = get_included_files();

foreach ($included_files as $filename) {
    echo "$filename\n";
}
?>

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The above example will output:

abc.php
test1.php
test2.php
test3.php
test4.php

Answer 2

Yes: get_included_files()

Answer 3

Is there a way to get the same functionality but calling it from another page? An example would be if this function actually took an argument that consisted of another PHP file.

Answer 4

I found a work around for my problem. I wrote function that wrote all the results into a file with the same name into another directory using this function. I included this file with the function on every page of the web site using an htaccess file with the php_value auto_prepend_file filename.php. I then wrote an another app to read these files to calculate the metrics.