 <pre><code>Include and require are identical, except upon failure: require will produce a fatal error (E_COMPILE_ERROR) and stop the script include will only produce a warning (E_WARNING) and the script will continue </code></pre> <p>You can understand with examle include("test.php"); echo "\nThis line will be print";</p> <p>Output :Warning: include(test.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/........ This line will be print</p> <p>require("test.php"); echo "\nThis line will be print"; Warning: require(test.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/....</p>