How to include a class

Question

I have index.php and I want to include class.twitter.php inside it, how do I do this?

Hopefully then when I put the below code in index.php it will work.

$t = new twitter();
$t->username = 'user';
$t->password = 'password';

$data = $t->publicTimeline();

Answer 1

Check: http://www.php.net/require and http://www.php.net/include

Answer 2

Have a look at require() and require_once().

These should do the job.

Answer 3

Your code should be something like

require_once('class.twitter.php');

$t = new twitter;
$t->username = 'user';
$t->password = 'password';

$data = $t->publicTimeline();

Answer 4

You can use either of the following:

include "class.twitter.php";

or

require "class.twitter.php";

Using require (or require_once if you want to ensure the class is only loaded once during execution) will cause a fatal error to be raised if the file doesn't exist, whereas include will only raise a warning. See http://php.net/require and http://php.net/include for more details

Answer 5

I suggest you also take a look at __autoload.
This will clean up the code of requires and includes.