Does PHP cache include requests? I was wondering how to clean up my code and I thought about using a bit more includes. Consider the following scheme.
[foreach answer] [include answer.tpl.php] [/foreach]
This would require to include answer.tpl.php hundreds of times.
Does it cache? Will it have a worth-considering affect on performance? Is that considered a good practice? Bad?
In response to @Aaron Murray answer
No, that won't work. The mere concept of _once is to prevent including the same file more than once. (to prevent errors caused by e.g. overwriting constant values)
Practical example would look like this:
# index.php
<?php
$array = array('a', 'b', 'c');
$output = '';
foreach($array as $e)
{
$output .= require_once 'test.php';
}
echo $output;
# test.php
<?php
return $e;