from my understanding, require pastes code into the calling php file.

what if you were requiring from inside a method...it would paste the entire code/class inside the method, blocking the next statement in the method.

eg.

  function test() {

    require 'pathtosomeclasscode';
    somestatement; // any code after the require is blocked.

 }

how do i get around this, to be able to require code where-ever, without it being pasted in that exact spot?

Thanks in advance for your help.