PHP class not found but it's included

Question

I'm including a PHP class with

require_once($ENGINE."/classUser.php"); 

but when the code is executed i receive this error:

Fatal error: Class 'User' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\WebName\resources\engine\ajax\signup.php on line 12

I still can't figure out what's the problem. I'm 99% sure it's correct.

The "$ENGINE" is correct, and the class is correct too (Netbeans suggests me class methods and variables).

signup.php:

<?php  /* Created on: 13/12/2011  * Author:   *   * Description: User signup procedure.  */  require_once("../settings.php"); require_once($ENGINE."/classUser.php");  $user = new User(); $user->createUser($_POST["username"], $_POST["email"], $_POST["password"]);   ?> 

classUser.php:

<?php  /* Created on: 13/12/2011  * Author:   *   * Description: This class manages users.  */  require_once("settings.php"); require_once($LIBRARY."/cassandraphp/cassandra.php");  class User {      public function createUser($username, $email, $password){         $cassandra = Cassandra::createInstance($CASSANDRASERVER);         $cassandra->set(                 "user.".$username,                 array(                     'ID' => uniqid(),                     'Username' => $username,                     'Email' => $email,                     'Password' => $password                 )         );     }  }  ?> 

Answer 1

Check to make sure your environment isn't being picky about your opening tags. My configuration requires:

<?php 

If i try to use:

<? 

Then I get the same error as you.