PHP performance hampered by require()

Question

I ran my code through xdebug profiler and saw more than 30 percent of the time is spent on the require() calls. What is the best way to improve on this? I saw some posts a

Answer 1

Make sure your includes use absolute instead of relative paths. Easiest way to do this is by prepending your paths with

dirname(__FILE__)  // for php < 5.3
__DIR__            // for php >= 5.3