so on my Ubuntu 16.04 server, i have a couple of .php files in my /var/www/html/ directory which i do regular php stuff such as data retrieval, user login... etc. I wanted to implement a mail verification service in which i wanted to use the gmail smtp service, so i installed mail through pear by the following command:
pear install --alldeps Mail
After following the steps in this website, i restarted apache2 and now my php require_once isn't working. I tried include_path which also didn't work.
I uninstalled mail by pear uninstall mail, deleted php and reinstalling it hoping it would get the files back as it was but no luck, does anyone know what happened and how can i fix it?
sample code: require_once 'DbOperation.php';
The above code worked and i want it to work as it is the key to my entire php api, please dont suggest a workaround. Any help is appreciated.
Nothing in what you've tried should be causing require or require_once to suddenly stop working. Make sure you have all error reporting turned on:
ini_set('display_errors',1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
With error reporting enabled you may spot a problem with something else (like the code that is being required).