When is a php include file parsed?

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When is a PHP include file parsed? At startup, or during execution?

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Answer 1

File included with include statement are parsed during exection. When your php code hits a include statement it will start parsing the file to see what is in there. From w3schools

The include (or require) statement takes all the text/code/markup that exists in the specified file and copies it into the file that uses the include statement.

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