how to make an index file which includes all the other files

[samiq]

PHP
HEllo world, i need some help here plz.

i want to make an addressbook and want to have an index file that
includes/requires all the other files in the include folder(the include folder contains all the functionality) so that i dont have to manually include files in other files.

The code is an example, of what i want i to be like, for instance
db_access.include.php includes db_connect.include.php which i dont want... i just want somehow to include db_connect.include.php in the index file and have it accessible every where.

sorry for my english..
regards

db_connect.include.php is given below
<?php
	$server="localhost";
	$user="root";
	$pass="";
	
	global $connection;
	$connection = mysql_pconnect($server,$user,$pass) or die("Error connecting to the server");
	
	$database = "addressbook";
	
	mysql_select_db($database) or die("No such database exists");
	
	print("Connected to the database");
	print("<br />");
?>

db_access.include.php is given below
<?php
include '/include/db_connect.include.php';
function insert($data,$table, $connection){
$query="insert into $table ('name','phone','email','website','notes') values('$data[name]','$data[phone]','$data[email]','$data[websites]','$data[notes]')";
var_dump("Inside db_access.include.php" . $connection);
if (!mysql_query($query,$connection))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
print('1 record added');

}
?>

[ShawnCplus]

php.net/autoload

[samiq]

thanks for the reply... the __autoload function requires one argument, isnt there any other way just to load all the files, i mean why cant i just include or require all the include files and then be able to access their functionality on other pages???

[ShawnCplus]

thanks for the reply... the __autoload function requires one argument, isnt there any other way just to load all the files, i mean why cant i just include or require all the include files and then be able to access their functionality on other pages???

You never call the __autoload function, it is automatically called when you try to use a class. So all you have to do is include the file that defines the __autoload function and any time you try to instantiate an undefined class it will call the autoload function.

[kireol]

if you are that lazy that you dont want to type out each include/require, or use autoload, then write a function that

Reads the directory http://php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php
include each file that has the extension you want http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php

which is basically what autoload does

[samiq]

if you are that lazy that you dont want to type out each include/require, or use autoload, then write a function that

Reads the directory http://php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php
include each file that has the extension you want http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php

which is basically what autoload does

I think im not explaining it correctly what im looking for or i dont understand php that much... So below is the index.php that loads initially when i type .... http://localhost/addressbook

index.php

<?php
	
	require_once("include/db_connect.include.php");
	require_once("include/db_access.include.php");
	require_once("addressbook.php");
		
?>

include/db_connect.include.php

<?php
	$server="localhost";
	$user="root";
	$pass="";
	
	global $connection;
	$connection = mysql_pconnect($server,$user,$pass) or die("Error connecting to the server");
	
	$database = "addressbook";
	
	mysql_select_db($database) or die("No such database exists");
	
	print("Connected to the database");
	print("<br />");
?>

include/db_access.include.php

<?php

function insert($data,$table, $connection){
$query="insert into $table ('name','phone','email','website','notes') values('$data[name]','$data[phone]','$data[email]','$data[websites]','$data[notes]')";
var_dump("Inside db_access.include.php" . $connection);
if (!mysql_query($query,$connection))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
print('1 record added');
}
?>

addressbook.php

<?php
	
	if(!empty($_POST)){// only go in this code when the user enters some thing in it.
		
		$name = $_POST['name'];
		$phone = $_POST['phone'];
		$email = $_POST['email'];
		$websites = $_POST['websites'];
		$notes = $_POST['notes'];
		
		// create an associative array to pass it to the insert function
		$data = array("name"=>$name, "phone"=>$phone, "email"=>$email, "websites"=>$websites, "notes"=>$notes);
		$tablename = "contact";
		
		insert($data,$tablename, $connection);
	}
	
	
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>AddressBook</title>
<link href="oneColElsCtrHdr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body class="oneColElsCtrHdr">

    <div id="container">
      <div id="header">
       <!-- end #header --></div>
      
          <div id="mainContent">
            <div id="form_box">
              <h1 align="center">Address Book</h1>
                                        
                          <form id="myform" name='myform' method="post" action="addressbook.php">
                                <!--<input type="button" onclick="ajaxFunction()" value="Query MySQL" style="position:relative; top:250px; left:200px;"/> -->
                                <div id="name" class="myformdiv">
                                    <label for="name">Name</label>
                                    <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
                                </ div>
                                <br />
                                <br />
                               <div id="phone" class="myformdiv">
	                                <label for="phone">Phone</label>
    	                            <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone">
                               </div> 
                               <br />
                               <br />
                               <div id="email" class="myformdiv">
	                                <label for="email">Email</label>
    	                            <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
                               </div> 
                               <br />
                               <br />
                               <div id="websites" class="myformdiv">
	                                <label for="websites">Websites</label>
    	                            <input type="text" name="websites" id="websites">
                               </div> 
                               <br />
                               <br />
                               <div id="notes" class="myformdiv">
	                                <label for="notes">Notes</label>
    	                            <input type="text" name="notes" id="notes">
                               </div>
                               
                               
	             <input id="sumbit" class="buttonn" type="submit" value="Sumbit" /> <input id="reset" class="buttonn" type="reset" value="Reset" />
                            
                          </form>
                 </div> 
                
         </div>
       
                
    </div>
</body>
</html>

This code generates an error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function insert() in C:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\addressbook\addressbook.php on line 15

because it cant find the insert function because i havent included db_connect.include.php in db_access.include.php,, but i dont want that i just want to include db_connect.include.php in index.php and make the insert function work,, could anyone plz explain me how that would be..