[theme-reviewers] Stupid Question of the Day

[Chip Bennett]

For including functional (as opposed to template) files in a Theme, you
should use something like the following in functions.php:

include_once( get_template_directory() . '/relative/path/to/file.php' );


Unless the file is intended to be over-ridden in a Child Theme, in which
case you would use:

include_once( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/relative/path/to/file.php' );


I'm sure Plugins would be similar, but that's a question outside the scope
of Theme-Reviewers. :)

Chip

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Ryan Frankel <ryan.frankel at gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
>  I have a dumb question that I am sure has been covered a million times but
> I am not sure what the best way to include PHP files into my plugin/theme.
> What I currently have is something like below which can't possibly be the
> right way to do it.
>
>                        include_once(WP_PLUGIN_DIR .
> '/swamped-event-calendar/php/functions_db.php');
>                        include_once(WP_PLUGIN_DIR .
> '/swamped-event-calendar/php/functions_calendar.php');
>                        include_once(WP_PLUGIN_DIR .
> '/swamped-event-calendar/php/functions_list.php');
>
> Any tips on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ryan
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