Fix fatal error for inlcude path and included file not existed using include or require for cron job

When running php in cron, the include and require path may not work.

Eg. when your file has below require or include statement:

require '../includes/common.php';

You will get a fatal error when running using php-cli or php-cli in cron

# php-cli
php /home/username123/public_html/cron/mycronjob.php
# cron
* * * * * php /home/username123/public_html/cron/mycronjob.php

Error got:

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '../includes/common.php'
 (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
 /home/username123/public_html/cron/mycronjob.php on line 2

To fix this, you need to use php to set include_path attributes so when running cron it'll set the path so the script will learn where to look for the include / require files.

set_include_path

reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-include-path.php

example:

set_include_path('/home/username123/public_html/includes/');
require 'common.php';

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