I've been programming in PHP for several years now and never encountered this error before.
Here's my widget.php file:
require_once('fruit.php');
echo "I am compiling just fine!!!";
And my fruit.php file:
$bVar = true;
When these two files look like this ^ then everything compiles with no errors and I get the "I am compiling just fine!!!" success message.
Now, the minute I move the fruit.php file one directory level up, and change my widget.php file to reflect the directory restructuring:
require_once('../fruit.php');
echo "I am compiling just fine!!!";
Now all the sudden, I get PHP warnings & fatal errors:
Warning: require_once(../fruit.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /webroot/app/widget.php on line 1
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../fruit.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /webroot/app/widget.php on line 1
In all my years working with PHP, I've never seen require_once() fail like this before. Any ideas?!?!