PHP - require_once in multiple pages - php

I am using LAMP stack to develop a PHP application. I am using require_once to include class files. I need to use the functions in those class files in more than one PHP page. So, I am including those class files in all the required PHP pages using require_once. But, if I include those class files in more than one page, the PHP file goes blank. It displays nothing. View source also displays nothing.
Files: test.php, process.php and class.test.php
test.php has
<?php
session_start();
require_once 'classes/class.test.php';
.
Few more classes
.
.
?>
<html>
<form name = "myForm" method="POST" action="process.php">
<input type = "text" name="username" value=""/>
<input type = "submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</html>
process.php
<?php
session_start();
require_once 'classes/class.test.php';
$obj_test = new test();
$obj_test->test();
?>
class.test.php
<?php
session_start();
require_once 'class.misc.php';
require_once 'config.php'; //DB connection details
function test()
{
$obj_misc = new misc();
$id = $obj_misc->random_ID();
$username = $_POST['username'];
$query = "INSERT INTO test_table VALUES ('$id','$username',NOW());
mysql_query($query);
}
?>
Now, it returns a blank page. If I comment out the require_once in process.php, the test.php page displays the form, but on submitting the form the process.php throws an error "class test not found".
I am struggling with this problem for the past 2 weeks. :( It was working fine before that. I don't understand what went wrong. Please help.

You have an error in the PHP code for process.php; you are missing a semicolon:
require_once 'classes/class.test.php'
should be:
require_once 'classes/class.test.php';
If that doesn't fix it, then there is probably some other error somewhere in your code. Without access to the full source, we won't be able to do much.
For future reference, if a page goes blank, there is usually a problem with the PHP source code (ie, some type of interpreting error). As part of good debugging tactics, look into display_errors and error_reporting

Try out with
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Sounds like your error reporting is turned off. You should check your error logs to see what exception is being thrown when it's failing silently (that will give you a little more insight).
Additionally, you may want to add this at the top of your process script:
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Require once is a function ...
try adding the parens ...
require_once( 'classes/class.test.php' );

looks like you are missing a closing qoute on the sql query
$query = "INSERT INTO test_table VALUES ('$id','$username',NOW());
mysql_query($query);
should be
$query = "INSERT INTO test_table VALUES ('$id','$username',NOW())";
mysql_query($query);

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When you use require_once PHP will check if the file has already been included, and if so, not include (require) it again. You can read it here.
So whats the problem here?
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-edit-
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