PHP: include function is blocked

Question

My PHP files are not able to call the include function anymore. I suppose my hosting changed php settings. Is there any workaround to this problem? Can I enable the include function in php.ini/.htaccess files? How? My host is using PHP version 4.4.9.

EDIT - All the files that I am trying to include are local files and not files on another server. The include functions were working fine until a few days back. They have suddenly stopped working.

Answer 1

i think is permission problem,

do you see error in error log file ,

or see error in the screen ?

Answer 2

Maybe your host changed the path to your www.

Are you using relative or absolute paths in your include()?

Answer 3

What does your php.log say?

Answer 4

This looks and feels wrong, but could this work?

function includeFile($path) {

    if (!file_exists($path)) {
        return false;
    }

    $contents = file_get_contents($path);

    eval($contents); // ewww
    return true;

}