Include() files and multiple sites

Anon

I have developed some PHP software that can be used by many different sites. Some of the functions and standard variables used by this software are stored in include files which I would like stored outside of the webserver root directory. Obviously this is a matter of setting up the include_path to point outside of the root directory. No problem so far.

If I then have two sites using this software that are based on the same virtual server they will share the include_path which is where my problem occurs. One of the include()ed files is a file setting up site specific variables so obviously cannot be the same for both sites. I want this file to have a standard name as the sofware is effectively a package and I do not want to have to create individually tailored PHP files for each site.

So my question is this. Is there any way I can overcome this problem. I don't want to use individually tailored PHP code in any way. I thought of doing something like working out the site name from an environment variable in PHP (if that is possible) and then looking for the include files in a directory of that name, but I can't seem to get the include_path to work with subdirectories. Is this correct?

Any ideas would be appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

Chrber

andreas

dont set the include_path... use include(../../somedirectory/file.php);

include("/home/httpd/hidden/file.php");

that's much better

Andreas

Anon

Yes, but the problem with that is that I still have to either amend my PHP scripts to pick up the include files from a specific location for each site or if I use a generic location such as /home/httpd.... then this will not be site specific and hence two sites on the same virtual server will end up in conflict with each other. Also remember that this is a package and may run on different platforms/webservers etc. so I do not want to hardcode directory structures.

I really want to be able to grab some site specific environment variable at run time using PHP and based on this construct the path to my include files.

e.g. If at run time a variable was available giving the site name (mydomain.com) then I could dynamically ask for files from the mydomain directory. I was hoping this could be outside of the web root area which was why I was looking at using the include_path location. So I guess what I need to know is is there a site specific environment variable available in PHP and can I retrieve the include_path in PHP. If the answer to these two is yes then I stand a chance or is there another way anyone can think of.

Regards,

chrber.

Anon

I found this prior to reading you message. Could be of some use.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=126935&thread=126933