Use classes to keep varibles (constants)

firmolari

Hi,

I´m trying to use some constans in my program and I don´t want to use as globlas one. I´ve thought that is posible keep then in an array that takes part from a class, so I would have (commands.php)


class commands {

var $comandos = array ("LOGIN_USER" => 1,
"NEW_USER" => 2);

function commands() {		
}

}

So, I´m in myprogram.php, and I want to access to the value of LOGIN_USER, I have to do:


require("./commands.php");

$h = new commands;
$p = $h->comandos[LOGIN_USER];

I need to invoke 'new' as it was to expect. My question is the next one:

Is there any way no to invoke 'new' and to access to the variable commands?. Or, is there any other way to implement what I want to do?

Thanks,

Weedpacket

[man]define[/man]

firmolari

Yeah, but as I said, I don´t want to to define the constants and include them in each of my pages. That´s it what you want to say sending me to the define function?

Is there no any other method?

Thanks.

diego25

I'm not sure if static class variables are allowed in PHP...if they are, then they are the way to go.

Diego

Weedpacket

But if you don't include them in your pages then they won't be available. That's true whether you're using named constants, global variables, or objects. A PHP script isn't psychic, after all...

You can have PHP include a file automatically without having to specify it in the script itself, by specifying it in the auto_prepend_file = declaration in php.ini. Using named constants via define() would probably be the simpler syntax (and would run faster, too).

ednark

you all you want is simple values... atomic values... you could write your own ini file and do a [man]parse_ini_file[/man] on it

but you would have to include it every page you wanted to use it on...

but your best bet is weedpackets last solution... prepended defines