Be carfull if you have a newline or blank space befor your php tags in the included/required file it will read as html and outputed.
If your running your output through javascript string evaluations which would be sensitive to newlines/white spaces be carfull that the first chars in the file are the php tages eg
If you use relativ paths in a php script (file A) that can be required by another php script (file B), be aware that the relativ paths in file A will be relativ to the directory, where file B is stored. You can use the following syntax in file A, to be sure that the paths are relativ to the directory of file A: