There is a way to tell if we're actually in the script which was directly launched. Just like in Python there is: if __name__ == '__main__': pass ...in PHP it looks like this: if (basename($argv[0]) == basename(__FILE__)) { main(); } I'm using this trick with PHPUnit testing: // Test if (basename($argv[0]) == basename(__FILE__)) { include substr(__FILE__, 0, -4) . 'Test.php'; } Very, very useful. Have a fun, Mirek Rusin, Poland, Rzeszow