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using custom environment variables in php

Hi experts,
I have a scenario as follows:

I have to include one file present in a specific folder to a lot of other files present in different folders.

Is it possible to create a custom environment variable referring to the path of the file to be included, so that instead of hard coding the value of the file path, I can refer to the environment variable in the all the files.

Thanks

shobinsun

Hi,

Use this idea:

$thefileroot = $_SERVER["SITE_HTMLROOT"]

And use all files from that html web root.

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Roger Baklund

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sandhya01

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Hi Experts,
Great!! it is working.
But is there any centralized way to do this. I mean, if someday there is a change in the location of the include.php file, i need to manually edit all the files which references include.php, right?
If there is a centralized way to set the value of this file path, like in one file i set a variable to the path of include.php and refer that variable from all the other files. So in case of any change in future, I have to update only one file.

Please advice.

Thanks

Roger Baklund

You can modify the include path in the php.ini file.

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.include-path

sandhya01

ASKER

Hi Cxr,
Nice answer, I hope it will work. I will test it tomorrow and will mention the exact way to do this.

Thanks lot